228 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

 18

Communication

Services to communicate with others

 15

Currency and finance

Exchange rates, crypto prices, payments and unit convertors

 40

Geodata

Locations and directions

 35

Graphics

Graphics and multimedia manipulation

 12

Language and text

Translation, dictionaries, word finders and text checks

 14

News feeds and APIs

Get news headlines for your website

 16

Other

Other services

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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. Copyleaks API
  8. OpenWeatherMap
  9. HostIP.info API
  10. Microsoft Translator

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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Voyage AI API

Voyage AI offers embedding and reranking models for search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): turn text, code or images into vectors for semantic search, and rerank search results by how well they match a question. There ...

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Geoapify

Geoapify offers location APIs built on OpenStreetMap and other open data: address geocoding and autocomplete, reverse geocoding, routing, travel-time areas (isolines), places search and map tiles. Use it to find addresses in a ...

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Z.ai API (GLM Flash models)

The Z.ai API gives access to the GLM language models from Zhipu AI for chat, text generation, coding and image understanding. It uses the OpenAI format, so the OpenAI SDKs work after changing the base URL to api.z.ai. Requests ...

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BigDataCloud Free Reverse Geocode to City API

BigDataCloud's client-side reverse geocoding API turns the user's current coordinates into a place: city or locality, region, country and continent, in the language you ask for. Call it from the browser or a mobile app after ...

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USNO Astronomical Applications API

The Astronomical Applications API of the US Naval Observatory gives sun and moon data for any place and date: rise, set and transit times, twilight, moon phase and illumination. Other endpoints list the moon phases of a year, ...

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OSRM demo server

OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) calculates routes on OpenStreetMap roads: driving directions with distance, travel time and turn-by-turn steps, plus distance tables between many points, matching GPS tracks to roads and finding ...

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