mark8769 / apifinderdemo

Demo usage of a free api without needing an API key. Example uses the XMLHttpRequest object to make requests and receive responses. Source for free api's https://mixedanalytics.com/blog/list-actually-free-open-no-auth-needed-apis/

Demo

Purpose:

This assignment aimed to find a free API from Mixed Analytics and do something useful with it. The APIs found in the link are all free and require no authentication. While I appreciate someone compiling this list, it was lacking in the amount of API's they had (82). The API I chose was Public APIs, which list's some public APIs (1425). For this assignment, I added the cors enabled filter, is the api https enabled filter, dropdown for all the available categories, and an input for searching.

Contents:

1. index.html - The website itself.

2. styles.css - Styling of page, including some neat table styling.

3. script.js - Performs the api calls when submit button is pressed. Fills the categories on site load, and dynamically add's the search results to the table.

Note:

I noticed the maintainers of the api haven't been active on github anymore. Some links might be out of date. At some point this page might stop working?

Issues with maintainers

After digging through the issues, I found out that they forked the repo, and are now maintaining the new repo here. Maintained Public APIs repo