--- title: Free Public APIs for Developers | daily.dev description: APIs enable efficient communication between software applications, boosting development speed and functionality. The post explains the types of APIs, their... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/free-public-apis-for-developers-blxinbu80 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Free Public APIs for Developers | daily.dev og:description: APIs enable efficient communication between software applications, boosting development speed and functionality. The post explains the types of APIs, their... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/free-public-apis-for-developers-blxinbu80 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bLXiNBu80.png og:image:alt: Free Public APIs for Developers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Free Public APIs for Developers **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 8 min read · 977 upvotes · 27 comments ## Summary APIs enable efficient communication between software applications, boosting development speed and functionality. The post explains the types of APIs, their protocols, and their importance in web services. It also lists several free public APIs for developers, such as JSONPlaceholder, Unsplash API, Free Dictionary API, and more, highlighting their use cases and benefits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@elyes40** · 14 upvotes > Speaking from experience here, please don't rely on these too much in production, i've had restcountries go out on me peak traffic and new users couldn't select their origin countries. > (as to why not just have a countries json file, i used restcountries for their i18n features for every official language) **@gamewar** · 2 upvotes > Thank you for this. Those APIs have helped me to make new ideas. **@essijunior** · 2 upvotes > Thanks **@pouchlabs** · 2 upvotes > make apis with [fasteejs](https://GitHub.com/pouchlabs/fasteejs) > > >  **@paruidev** · 2 upvotes > thanks for this post I'm finding such public api to use in my next projects recently ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/free-public-apis-for-developers-blxinbu80) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Free Public APIs for Developers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-public-apis-for-developers-blxinbu80","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-public-apis-for-developers-blxinbu80"},"datePublished":"2025-04-21T04:46:45.351Z","dateModified":"2025-04-21T04:47:19.464Z","description":"APIs enable efficient communication between software applications, boosting development speed and functionality. 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Those APIs have helped me to make new ideas.","datePublished":"2025-05-01T17:48:51.468Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bLXiNBu80#c-LUArluYAj","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Game War","url":"https://daily.dev/gamewar","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKahZuB-4x2m90eV_ybqvhyyoc-76INUPUz_9n7l1y7SgYvxg=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks","datePublished":"2025-04-30T10:52:24.229Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bLXiNBu80#c-mK1u2msph","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"NDANG ESSI Pierre Junior","url":"https://daily.dev/essijunior","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77199013?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"make apis with fasteejs","datePublished":"2025-05-06T16:28:46.889Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bLXiNBu80#c-Oh4DlLjI7","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"pouchlabs","url":"https://daily.dev/pouchlabs","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/166039253?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"thanks for this post I’m finding such public api to use in my next projects recently","datePublished":"2025-05-02T05:04:22.091Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bLXiNBu80#c-AaPOVpz8v","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Pratap Parui","url":"https://daily.dev/paruidev","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--uHQi3PDa--/f_auto/v1728728143/avatars/avatar_0TFbWJjSOcHDGqaxvPOjE"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```