APIs to help build your next side project
Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Syed Faraaz Ahmad @faraazahmad

About: I like to build stuff

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Bengaluru, India
Joined:
Aug 20, 2018

APIs to help build your next side project

Publish Date: Aug 29 '20
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Say you have an idea for a new side project, but dont know what topic to base it on (for example: Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica). You really don't wanna be building another to-do list.

You might want to test only a small idea you have, and dont want to build a full fledged app. Here's where you can use APIs as substitutes for parts of the app you're not focusing on.

I made a project using Vue that lists all publicly available APIs for you to use.

API Land screenshot

As you can see there are a lot of APIs to choose from (643 to be accurate), going through all of them to select one is counter productive. So I have provided a way to filter them by category, and am working on adding more filtering and search options.

Filter APIs screenshot

It's open source so you can help me improve this project here.

Github Link: https://github.com/faraazahmad/apiland
Live Demo: https://faraazahmad.github.io/apiland

Comments 13 total

  • sultan.B
    sultan.BAug 30, 2020

    First I would like to thank you for such work.
    I would like to point out that the project has a styling issue (I opened the site using firefox).
    Edit: The list of items show up as a column instead of a grid

    • Syed Faraaz Ahmad
      Syed Faraaz AhmadAug 30, 2020

      I'm glad I can be useful! Yeah you're right I'm not very good at CSS Grid. Although it's not a Firefox issue. What's your screen size and resolution?

      • sultan.B
        sultan.BAug 30, 2020

        supposedly the browser view port width is 1519 pixels

  • Alexis JC.
    Alexis JC.Aug 30, 2020

    Hi ! Very great and useful idea. :)
    I think it have a weird behavior when you redirect to the api website. When you have already be redirected to an api website, then you want try another, you're first redirected to the previous api you already visited

  • Krzysztof Buczynski
    Krzysztof BuczynskiAug 31, 2020

    Good Job !

    I really like this. Well deserved Star on the github :D

  • Guga Cavalieri
    Guga CavalieriAug 31, 2020

    awesome awesome 🧡️

  • Robert
    RobertSep 1, 2020

    For more APIs, here's my go to github.com/public-apis/public-apis

  • ENDEESA
    ENDEESAOct 18, 2020

    Great work!

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