Five FREE apis you NEED for your next project!

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Hi! Welcome, or welcome back to a new blog post! I’m gonna be sharing with you some awesome FREE apis that y…


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Quick Plug before we get started: If you like what you read, feel free to read more over at my blog site, or read this article in my blog site

Hi! Welcome, or welcome back to a new blog post! I'm gonna be sharing with you some awesome FREE apis that you can easily implement into your projects as they don't require any api keys or authentication! Without wasting any more time, let's get started!

Table Of Contents

  1. QR Tag API
  2. EVA - Email Validation API
  3. GeographQL
  4. Image Charts
  5. Free Forex API
  6. Fun Bonus: EmojiHub

1. QR tag API

Simple api that allows you to generate QR codes! There are multiple use cases for this, and while you can use it as a fun little feature for your project, it could also work as project itself!

The cool thing about this is that you can specify a lot of perameters like the size of the image, or the format like SVG or PNG.

URL Endpoint: https://qrtag.net/api/qr(_transparent)(_[size]).[png|svg](?url=[URL])

Example: https://www.qrtag.net/api/qr_12.svg?url=https://the-net-blog.netlify.app

Response:

2. EVA - Email Validation API

EVA is a simple API that allows you to identify spam emails or fake emails with blazinlgly fast performance!

URL Endpoint: https://api.eva.pingutil.com/email?email=[email]

Example: `https://api.eva.pingutil.com/email?email=test@mail7.io

Response:

{
"status": "success",
"data": {
"email_address": "test@mail7.io",
"domain": "mail7.io",
"valid_syntax": true,
"disposable": true,
"webmail": false,
"deliverable": true,
"catch_all": true,
"gibberish": false,
"spam": false
}
}

3. GeographQL

Get information about countries, states, cities using GraphQL

URL Endpoint:https://api.geographql.rudio.dev/graphql

Queries: cities, city, state, states, country, countries

Example Response for a city query:

{
"data": {
"city": {
"id": 127759,
"name": "Los Angeles",
"state_id": 4655,
"country_id": 236,
"country_code": "US",
"latitude": 34.05223,
"longitude": -118.24368
}
}
}

4. Image Charts

Create any type of chart image you can think of! I even learnt some new type of charts while going through their documentation.

Might not be the easiest thing to get started with, but this can definitely spice up your websites and in my opinion worth giving a try.

URL Endpoint: https://image-charts.com/chart ?cht=<chart_type> &chd=<chart_data> &chs=<chart_size> &...additional_parameters...

Example URL: https://image-charts.com/chart?chs=700x190&chd=t:60,40&cht=p3&chl=Hello%7CWorld&chan&chf=ps0-0,lg,45,ffeb3b,0.2,f44336,1%7Cps0-1,lg,45,8bc34a,0.2,009688,1

Response:

5. Free Forex API

The Free Forex API gives real-time information about foreign exchange rates, and as the name implies it is of course free to use, but they are strict when it comes to abusing their service.

URL Endpoint: https://www.freeforexapi.com/api/

Example URL: https://www.freeforexapi.com/api/live?pairs=EURGBP,USDJPY

Response:

{
"rates":{
"EURGBP":{
"rate":0.891724,
"timestamp":1532429549281
},
"USDJPY":{
"rate":111.1307,
"timestamp":1532429549281
}
},
"code":200
}

Fun Bonus: EmojiHub

EmojiHub returns random emojis from already filtered categories and groups. As well as get all the emojis from one specific group. Who knows, maybe you might find a good use for this!

URL Endpoint: https://emojihub.herokuapp.com/api/[Option]

Example : https://emojihub.herokuapp.com/api/random

Response:

{
name: "hugging face",
category: "smileys and people",
group: "face positive",
htmlCode: [
"&#129303;"
],
unicode: [
"U+1F917"
]
}

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