A curated list of services and APIs for curious developers. Just build it with much costs.
Services
Items marked with ๐ธ are free-trial-period services, while the others offer monthly free-plan.
- Cloud Platform
- Backend as a Service (BAAS)
- Function as a Service (FAAS)
- Devops
- Marketing
- Content
- AI as a Service
- Misc
APIs
Items marked with ๐ require a registered API key to make an API call.
All items below are ๐ธ in some way, e.g., only one free node have no scalabitlity at all.
- AWS - read AWS in plain English, and create smart AWS diagrams with cloudcraft
- Aliyun
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Heroku
- Docker Cloud - CI, registry, auto-deploy and scale.
Also known as mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS). More on nobackend.org.
- Firebase - Provide features to make app development easier, including Notifications, file Storage, Analytics, Remote Config, Dynamic Links, and more.
- Stream - Scalable Newsfeeds & Activity Streams
- Backendless - Hosting, API engine and merketplace platform.
- deepstreamHub - a lightning fast realtime data-store that connects browsers, smartphones, backends and the IoT.
- Serverless - Platform is coming.
- StdLib- Scalable microservices in Node.js (registration, gateway and management).
- Papertrail - Frustration-free log management (to aggregate, tail, search and analyze).
- Datadog - Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure.
- LogDNA - A log platform (storage, search and UI).
- Apex Ping - Global uptime monitoring. ๐ธ
- Ping-API - Automated API Testing and Monitoring.
- Peek - See and hear a 5-minute video of a real person using your site or app. It's super fast and totally free (usability testing tool).
- Travic - Free CI for github projects.
- Codeship - A fully customizable hosted CI platform.
- NanoBox - A portable micro platform with managed deployment and auto-scale that let you focus on code. ๐ธ
- Mailchimp - Email marketing platform
- Sendgrid - Delivering your transactional and marketing email through one reliable platform. ๐ธ
- CleverTap - Behavioral Analytics, Smart Segments with Personalized Messaging all built on a platform that gives you complete control.
- Nylas Cloud - Provide a modern API that works with existing email providers, eliminates the complexity of working with old protocols like IMAP and MIME to integrate your app with a userโs email, contacts, or calendar data.
- Kloudless - Universal Calendar API that integrate many Calendar services.
- Cronofy - Build secure, real-time, two-way calendar integration without compromising your usersโ privacy.
- cloudinary - The image back-end for web and mobile developers with an end-to-end solution (storage, manipulation and delivery).
- Qiniuไธ็ - General storage.
- api.ai - Conversational User Experience Platform (e.g., chatbot for Slack with NLP integrated).
https://api.api.ai/v1/ - Watson - Enable Cognitive computing with Language, Vision, Speech and Data APIs. ๐ธ
- AWS Lex - Conversational interfaces for your applications powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa. ๐ธ
- Wit.ai - Natural Language for Developers.
- LUIS - Language Understanding Intelligent Service (part of Microsoft Cognitive Services ๐ธ).
- Pandorabots - A RESTful API for integrating artificially intelligent chatbots into applications. ๐ธ
- Github pages & Gitlab pages (FREE)
- Netlify
- Forge - Forge is the fastest possible way to host your website.
- surge - Simple, single-command web publishing. Publish HTML, CSS, and JS for free, without leaving the command line.
- Auth0 - Add authentication to your web and mobile apps with ease (virtually anything able to send HTTPs requests can integrate with Auth0)
- Stormpath - Add authentication, authorization, and user management to any web or mobile app in minutes.
- Zapier - Connect the apps you use, automate tasks, get more out of your data.
- Algolia - Hosted Search API that delivers instant and relevant results from the first keystroke.
- License - Choose an open source license (tool by Github).
- Letโs Encrypt - Free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.
- Segment - Data integration.
- OpenCage - An API to convert coordinates to and from places (free tier service).
- Wikidata - A free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
- ConceptNet - An open, multilingual knowledge graph (in JSON-LD format). (http://api.conceptnet.io/c/en/tiger)
- Wolfram|Alpha - Top computational knowledge with Wolfram|Alpha knowledgebase. (http://api.wolframalpha.com/v1/simple?appid=DEMO&i=What+airplanes+are+flying+overhead%3F) ๐
- DarkSky - The easiest, most advanced, weather API on the web.
https://api.darksky.net/forecast/[key]/[latitude],[longitude]๐ - Pm25.in - AQI data for Chinese cities. ๐
- aqicn.org - Map tile, widget and JSON data.
http://tiles.aqicn.org/tiles/{aqi}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png๐
- Football-data - Ur src of machine readable football data (Fixtures, league tables, teams and events). ๐
- spoonacular - Food, recipe and nutrition; parsing, matching, and searching. ๐
- FatSecret - Food and nutrition information as well as exercise and weight management tools. ๐
- HUDS - Harvard University Dining Service menus. ๐
- Beer Mapping - Utilities for grabbing or aggregating our Brewpub, Brewery, Beer Bar or Beer Store information. ๐
- Marvel - Marvel comics, creators, characters, events, stories and series (in beta, see also marvelousdb).
GET /v1/public/characters๐ - douban่ฑ็ฃ - Douban books, movies, musics, events ... (ไธญๆ)
GET /v2/movie/subject/1764796๐ - taobaoๆทๅฎ - Taobao items, Xiami music ... ๐
- Face++ - Face, ID-card and image recognition. ๐
- TextRazor - The TextRazor API helps you extract and understand the Who, What, Why and How from your text. ๐
- Clarifai - Image and video recognition. ๐
- Ambiverse - Automatic text understanding and intelligent text production.
- Smmry - API to summarize articles, webpage and text.
- RandomUser - A free, open-source API for generating random user data. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people (name, birthday, address, email, picture, phone, login and more). (https://randomuser.me/api)
- pplapi - A virtual database of the entire human population (language, religion ... samples for research, products, and decisions). (http://pplapi.com/6352373083.json)
- Hacker News - Official HN API.
- Asterank - Astronomy dataset by NASA. (http://www.asterank.com/api/asterank?query={%22e%22:{%22$lt%22:0.1},%22i%22:{%22$lt%22:4},%22a%22:{%22$lt%22:1.5}}&limit=10)
- Socrata Open Data API (SODA) - Government organizations data of the states. (https://data.ct.gov/resource/y6p2-px98.json?category=Fruit&item=Peaches)
- Internet Archive - A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Wayback - Retrieve information about Wayback capture web data. (http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com)
- News - API that returns JSON metadata for the headlines. ๐