187 free web services, hand-picked

Plug free web services into your site or app.

A web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices. We have selected the best free web services available on the web. If you want to add your web service use our add service form to send us your suggestions.

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Artificial intelligence

Text generation, chat, images, speech and AI search

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Books and research

Books, scholarly papers, encyclopedia and other texts

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Communication

Services to communicate with others

 11

Currency and finance

Exchange rates, crypto prices, payments and unit convertors

 37

Geodata

Locations and directions

 27

Graphics

Graphics and multimedia manipulation

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Language and text

Translation, dictionaries, word finders and text checks

 10

News feeds and APIs

Get news headlines for your website

 15

Other

Other services

 39

Web development services

Services to add to your website to validate data, add features etc

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Popular services

  1. IPInfoDB IP Location API
  2. World Weather Online Local Weather API
  3. BBC News Feeds
  4. ISBNdb
  5. Zipwise Free ZIP code web services
  6. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  7. timeanddate.com APIs
  8. Copyleaks API
  9. OpenWeatherMap
  10. HostIP.info API

New to web services?

Web services are web-based applications that use open, XML-based standards and transport protocols to exchange data with clients. You do not need to know what kind of programming language is being used, or the internal data structure. You can request data from a web service using simple HTTP-GET requests or more complex SOAP calls. Data is returned in XML or any other open standard.

We created a small tutorial on how to consume a web service, one on website thumbnails and a step-by-step one with the free HQAPI example API. If you are new to web services, check them out.

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Mailtrap

Mailtrap is an e-mail platform for developers with two parts. Email Sending is an e-mail API and SMTP service for transactional and bulk e-mails, with delivery tracking and analytics. Email Testing is a sandbox inbox that catches ...

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Sentry

Sentry tracks errors and performance problems in websites, apps and servers. Add a Sentry SDK (available for JavaScript, PHP, Python, Java, Go, iOS, Android and many more) and every crash or exception is reported with its stack ...

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PagerDuty

PagerDuty handles incident response and on-call scheduling. Monitoring tools send alerts to PagerDuty through its Events API or one of more than 750 integrations, and PagerDuty notifies the person who is on call by app, SMS, ...

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StatusCake

StatusCake monitors websites and servers: uptime checks from locations around the world, page speed, SSL certificate expiry and domain expiry, with alerts by e-mail and through integrations such as Slack. Monitors can also be ...

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NoMore404

NoMore404 monitors websites, APIs, DNS, TCP ports and ping, and confirms every failure from locations on different continents before it alerts anyone, so one bad network minute does not wake you up. Alerts go by e-mail and ...

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Google Gemini API

The Gemini API from Google gives access to the Gemini family of AI models for text generation, chat, summarising, coding, image and document understanding, speech, embeddings and function calling. Call it over REST or with the ...

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