[Projects] [Ideation] Tell us your favorite API and we'll tell you an app idea

[tanaypratap]

Project Ideation Live

We have got a long list of open APIs now. I would request you to go through the APIs listed and tell us if you find any API interesting. Comment with your interesting API and we will tell you how you can use it in a useful and cool app.

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We are doing a Instagram Live Ideation at 8.30 PM IST on 18th March, 2020. The list of APIs can be found here:

1. Some are suggested by folks on Twitter and are listed here

2. There's also a huge list which you want to check out.

what you need to do?

1. go through the list and comment with your interesting API with a description of the API

2. go through the comments and upvote what you feel is a cool API to use.

[khusharth]

Clarifai API: It offers image and video recognition as a service. It can recognize Celebrities, food, travel, face, NSFW and a lot more. Check the complete list here

[gkanishk]

Open Weather Weather API: It offers Current & Forecast weather data collection. Access current weather data for any location including over 200,000 cities. Can Find more details here

[khusharth]

JokeAPI : Can be used to get Programming and Miscellaneous jokes. Checkout the details here

[sushilburagute]

Edamam API : It offers access to a vast database of Recipes! (Also with Nutrition info for the diet conscious) I'm thinking of making a product where it challenges you a recipe everyday to make! Perfect skill to learn while a quarantine is going on 😋

[gkanishk]

URLTOSCREENSHOT: This API gets a screenshot from a webpage. Simply indicate the webpage url, and our API will do the rest. You can also indicate various parameters such as width, height, allocated time, and mobile view settings. Find more details here

[gkanishk]

PUSH BULLET: Used for sending automatic push notification from your device. Check here for more details

[tapanchudasama7]

Twilio API: It has a whole bunch of APIs that includes APIs to send SMS, MMS or even WhatsApp messages. If you want to make a chatbot or any application, they're really useful. Find more info here: https://www.twilio.com/

[gkanishk]

IndiaStack: This provides API support for Aadhaar, eKYC, eSign, UPI and DigitalLocker. API's for India made for people. Check here for more details.

[gkanishk]

Cloud Vision API allows developers to easily integrate vision detection features within applications, including image labelling, face and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and tagging of explicit content.Find more details here

[ameerthehacker]

Spotify API provides API to manage spotify play list, pause, play songs, make playlist and much more and you can go way creative using the docs here

[ameerthehacker]

one graph provides you API to do some awesome integrations between almost every service available on the internet. Put your creativity to work here

[ameerthehacker]

corona API lets you get status of affected people, recovered cases and much more., you can access it here

[gkanishk]

COVID-19:Shows Global stats for corona virus for individual country like confirmed cases deaths and survived count. Can be checked here Here's an example of live implementation.

[AbhishekkGautam]

languagelayer Provides you JSON API supporting 173 languages , simple way to automate language detection. You can access it here

[AbhishekkGautam]

BetterDoctor Provides you API with detailed information about doctors in your area. Website link

[gkanishk]

mailthis.to: Free-form to email API used for collecting data from user and send it to mail. For more details check here

[AbhishekkGautam]

Open Skills Provides API with Job titles, skills and jobs related data. Check it out here

[gkanishk]

Mailbox Validator: The Single Email Validation API does validation on a single email address and returns all the validation results in either JSON or XML format Check here for more details.

[AbhishekkGautam]

AirVisual Provides API with real-time and forecast air quality data for cities around the world. https://www.airvisual.com/air-pollution-data-api

[AbhishekkGautam]

Bored Provides API with the data of random activities to fight boredom. Docs : https://www.boredapi.com/documentation

[tripsus]

HackerNews API

For getting latest news posts from hackernews. Details of the API

[AbhishekkGautam]

Let's Validate API for generating thumbnails of captured screenshots of websites. Docs : https://github.com/letsvalidate/api/blob/master/README.md

[AbhishekkGautam]

CountAPI This API allows you to create simple numeric counters. You can use it to track page hits and specific events. https://countapi.xyz/

[AbhishekkGautam]

Better Meta A simple API to return the meta tags of any site in a digestable JSON format. http://bettermeta.io/

[AbhishekkGautam]

Holidays Provides API with Historical data regarding holidays. https://holidayapi.com/

[ExplorerAadi]

mapQuest API : works like google maps but much easier to tweak and use. Helps in giving direction, pinpointing a location and a bunch of stuffs like that. Need to know what can be possible with a geolocation api.

https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/

[ExplorerAadi]

Eventbrite Sell tickets anywhere for any event you create. https://www.eventbrite.com/developer/v3/

[ExplorerAadi]

Nutritionix  Worlds largest verified nutrition database https://developer.nutritionix.com/

[ExplorerAadi]

Cisco Spark  Team Collaboration Software https://developer.ciscospark.com/

Slack Team Instant Messaging. This is super important Tanay. In these times when WFH has become mandatory for a while. wanted to build something which can help people collaborate easily for many means and purposes. https://api.slack.com/

[reeversedev]

SpaceX API

🚀 Open Source REST API for the rocket, core, capsule, pad, and launch data

https://docs.spacexdata.com

[reeversedev]

Rick and Morty API

Information about the characters from the series, "Rick and Morty"

https://rickandmortyapi.com/documentation

[reeversedev]

Kitsu API

Kitsu is a modern anime discovery platform that helps you track the anime you're watching, discover new anime and socialize with other fans.

https://kitsu.docs.apiary.io/#

[reeversedev]

TheMovieDB API (My Personal Favourite)

Get information about movies, actors, cast, and images and posters.

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3

[sudharsangs]

Open Weather Map API

An API to find current weather of cities all over the world. https://openweathermap.org/

[bhatvikrant]

NPM Package that gives details about any country ( name, capital , currency etc )

Works like an API Gives JSON response https://www.npmjs.com/package/world-countries-capitals

[poonammohata]

Google Books API:

By using google book api application can perform full-text searches and retrieve book information, viewability and eBook availability. It can also manage personal bookshelves.

[kumaraswamy1]

Spotify API: The Spotify's Web API lets your applications fetch data of artists, albums from the Spotify music.🎶

[Aravindan07]

Ticket Master API

This api is used to search events by keyword in a certain location (lat/long), Getting events for a particular artist OR venue in a specific country/city/zip code/DMA/etc, Getting hi-res images for a particular event or artist and to search events of a certain genre in a particular location for a certain promoter.For more info (https://developer.ticketmaster.com/)

[AbhishekkGautam]

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Provides API with data of PUBG players and stats. Check it out https://developer.pubg.com/

[AbhishekkGautam]

lyrics.ovh Simple API to retrieve the lyrics of a song. https://lyricsovh.docs.apiary.io/#

[Aravindan07]

ScraperApi

Scraper API is designed to simplify web scraping.For more info (https://www.scraperapi.com/)

[swapnadeepmohapatra]

This is a food API. https://www.themealdb.com/api.php

You can get different food from this API.

[Anushka-codergirl]

musixmatch Musixmatch lyrics API is a robust service that permits you to search and retrieve lyrics in the simplest possible way. For more info see https://developer.musixmatch.com/documentation

[sarulathadurai]

Text analysis API integrated with image processing API which can read the text in images

[Anushka-codergirl]

REST COUNTRIES Get information about countries via a RESTful API. For more info see https://restcountries.eu/

[Anushka-codergirl]

Advice Slip Create an advice generator app with this API. For more info see https://api.adviceslip.com/

[shubhamp98]

Currency Converter API which lets you convert currency in a flash. The simplest API for currency conversion.

[theIYD]

NaMoMemes which gives you a list of memes of NaMo according to the routes mentioned. For more info see https://github.com/theIYD/NaMoMemes

PS: My own personal project made just for fun 😅

[vkassingh]

NASA API The objective of this API is to make NASA data, including imagery, eminently accessible to application developers.

Tensorflow API TensorFlow is an open-source API for numerical computation and large-scale machine learning

IBM WatsonSTT API Its an open-source speech to text api

[ScoobyDubeyDo]

PokeAPI: This API let's you consume information on Pokémon, their moves, abilities, types, egg groups and much, much more https://pokeapi.co/