5 Extremely Useful APIs for Your Next Projects
By: Mehdi Aoussiad
Tags: Javascript Tips, JavaScript, Web Development, Programming, Coding

5 Extremely Useful APIs for Your Next Projects

Introduction

APIs allow developers to save time by taking advantage of a platform’s implementation to perform some useful tasks. This also helps to reduce the number of code lines developers need to write for their programs. Because APIs give you access to the data that you will need for your application.

In this article, we will discover some amazing and useful APIs that you should know. All the APIs that I will mention are REST APIs that you can run using simple POST and GET methods. Let’s get right into it.

1. Responsive voice TTS API

The responsive voice is super easy to use, it is a text-to-speech API where you can even change the speaker’s accent, language, gender, etc. This is a great API because it allows you to easily transform any text into a speech.

You can check their website if you want to explore more about the API.

Here is a Codepen example to check out:

The responsive voice API.

You can change the text in the input above and click the “Speak” button to test it out.

2. The AcoBot AI chatbot API

The AcoBot API allows you to add AI chatbots to your website. This amazing API is ranked 9/10 in popularity and it’s totally for free. You can check their documentation if you want to explore more about this fun API.

Here is a Codepen example:

The chatBot API.

3. Codex code compiler

CodeX is an online compiler for various languages like Java, C++, Python, etc. You can execute code in various languages on your own website for free with the CodeX API. Of course, there are various APIs on the market to compile and execute code but none of them is completely free, unlike the Codex API.

You can also check the Github repository if you are interested.

In the Codepen below, you can compile, execute, and store your code just by clicking on New Class .

Codex.

4. The CountAPI

This API allows you to make simple numeric counters. It’s a very useful API to track the number of hits a page had or to know the number of users that clicked on a button for example.

You can check all the information about this API on their documentation if you want.

Here is another Codepen example that counts the number of views a page had:

The CountAPI.

5. The MovieDb API

This movie API gives you access to a list of movies, TV shows, actor images, and all the data about movies. This API is a system that is provided for you and your team to programmatically fetch and use data within that API.

You can check their website if you want to explore more about this fun API.

In the example below, we used the moviedb API to build a simple movie app that shows a list of movie titles and images. You can also search for a movie and it will get you the data you requested from the API.

The movie API.

Conclusion

As you can see, it was just a list of some extremely useful APIs that you can use on your next projects. As a developer, using APIs can give you a lot of benefits because you will take advantage of such useful features of an API.

Thank you for reading this article, I hope you found it useful.

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