Show HN: Browse Popular REST APIs

by dominicwhyte • 3 years ago

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Hi everyone!

I made this site a few months ago but never properly launched it. TryAPIs lets you browse popular REST APIs, with built-in docs and an interface to call endpoints from your browser.

I generate a unique page for each API endpoint using Gatsby, like https://tryapis.com/spotify/api/endpoint-search for calling the Spotify search endpoint. Docs are built in by parsing the latest OpenAPI specs for each service.

If you don't want to call the endpoint from the browser, you can copy a cURL request or a code snippet in Python, Node, C, etc.

It's been cool to watch the site grow via SEO for the long-tail of API endpoints, currently getting ~1.2k clicks/month from Google.

No commercial plans for the site and I'll open-source it if there's enough interest. Could be a good way to add support for more APIs over time!

Cheers,

Dominic

jekkito18• 3 years ago

Looks cool. Any plans to add the Twitter API?

dominicwhyte2• 3 years ago

We have Twitter already! https://tryapis.com/twitter

Show HN: Browse Popular REST APIs

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