Notes/List of APIs
This is a collection of free and (in my opinion) useful APIs or sites that publish their data as a free
download. Please note, that free only means free avaiability, not free
license. Please refer to the respective websites of the APIs for license
information.
List of APIs
General/Unclassified
Books/Movies/Books
Events
- JamBase has a big live music event database which
can be queried using a XML API~
(non-commercial only).
Internet
- Akismet.com provides a simple
HTTP API to check comments to your
blog/newssite/etc. for spam.
- Browsershots offers a XML-RPC
API to make screenshots of a website
with different browsers.
Click here to see an
example python client.
- Gumby provides a simple IP2location API in XML,
JSON and PHP serialized format. Don't really know though, if using an API is
better than using your own geolocation database.
- serversniff.net calls itself the "Swiss Army
Knife" for administrators and webmasters. They provide a
broad API (with a
mix of plain-text and XML) to tools like
HostOnIP or
Subdomains (displays all DNS
records pointing to an IP or a list of subdomains of a domain respectively).
Links