# Find Public APIs

> Independent public API directory with 2,112 listings, 50 categories, 32 documentation-reviewed guides, and a client-side API playground.

Provider documentation reviews date to 2026-09-16. Community imports are unverified. “No key” does not imply free commercial use. Do not describe catalog import dates as fresh verification. Provider documentation is authoritative. The playground requires provider CORS support and does not proxy requests.

## Core pages
- [API library](https://findpublicapis.com/library/)
- [Review methodology and privacy](https://findpublicapis.com/about/)
- [API playground](https://findpublicapis.com/playground/)

## Integration guides
- [How to choose a public API for your project](https://findpublicapis.com/guides/choosing-a-public-api/): A practical checklist for comparing API access, limits, data rights, browser support, and maintenance.
- [Why an API request works in cURL but fails in a browser](https://findpublicapis.com/guides/browser-api-requests-and-cors/): Understand browser CORS, preflight requests, exposed response headers, and how to interpret network errors in the API playground.
- [API keys, bearer tokens, and Basic authentication explained](https://findpublicapis.com/guides/api-authentication/): Choose the correct authentication method for a browser API test, and understand what happens to your credentials.

## Documentation-reviewed APIs
- [Radio Browser](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/radio-browser.md): Discover radio stations and stream URLs by country, language, and genre.
- [Open-Meteo](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/open-meteo.md): Global weather forecasts, historical conditions, and climate data.
- [Frankfurter](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/frankfurter.md): Currency exchange rates from institutional sources, without a signup.
- [JSONPlaceholder](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/jsonplaceholder.md): Fake posts, users, comments, and todos for testing your next app.
- [PokéAPI](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/pokeapi.md): A detailed Pokémon database with moves, abilities, and game data.
- [REST Countries](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/rest-countries.md): Country names, capitals, currencies, flags, and geographic reference data.
- [Open Library](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/open-library.md): Search books, authors, and editions from an open library catalog.
- [DummyJSON](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/dummyjson.md): Realistic placeholder products, carts, users, and recipes for prototypes.
- [TVmaze](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/tvmaze.md): TV shows, episodes, cast information, and broadcast schedules.
- [Rick and Morty API](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/rick-and-morty.md): Characters, locations, and episodes from the animated series.
- [Dog CEO](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/dog-ceo.md): Random dog photos and breed-based image collections.
- [TheMealDB](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/themealdb.md): Meal recipes, ingredients, and cooking instructions to explore.
- [TheCocktailDB](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/thecocktaildb.md): Cocktail recipes searchable by name, ingredient, and drink type.
- [Art Institute of Chicago](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/art-institute.md): Artwork metadata from the Art Institute’s public collection API.
- [The Met Collection](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/met-museum.md): Museum departments and collection records from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [World Bank](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/world-bank.md): Country-level economic and development indicators for data projects.
- [NASA Open APIs](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/nasa.md): Space imagery and astronomy data for educational applications.
- [USGS Earthquakes](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/usgs-earthquakes.md): Earthquake locations, magnitudes, and times in GeoJSON.
- [WeatherAPI.com](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/weatherapi.md): Current conditions and forecast data with location lookup.
- [Alpha Vantage](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/alpha-vantage.md): Financial time series and market data for research applications.
- [NewsAPI](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/newsapi.md): Search news articles and headlines for a development prototype.
- [iTunes Search](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/itunes-search.md): Search podcast, music, and audiobook catalog metadata from Apple.
- [Open Trivia DB](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/open-trivia-db.md): Trivia questions with categories, difficulty levels, and multiple-choice answers.
- [Nager.Date](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/nager-date.md): Public holiday dates and local names for country-specific calendars.
- [ipify](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/ipify.md): Retrieve the public IP address seen by a small JSON endpoint.
- [Random User](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/random-user.md): Generate sample user profiles for interface demos and test fixtures.
- [Datamuse](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/datamuse.md): Find rhymes, related words, spelling matches, and autocomplete suggestions.
- [Open Food Facts](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/open-food-facts.md): Barcode-based food product information, ingredients, and nutrition data.
- [GBIF](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/gbif.md): Biodiversity observations and species records from contributing datasets.
- [Crossref](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/crossref.md): Find scholarly metadata, DOI records, publication dates, and journal information.
- [Sunrise-Sunset.org](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/sunrise-sunset.md): Sunrise, sunset, twilight, and day-length calculations for coordinates.
- [PoetryDB](https://findpublicapis.com/apis/poetrydb.md): Search poems by author, title, line content, or poem length.