261 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

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Geodata

Locations and directions

 47

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

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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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LiveKit

LiveKit is an open-source platform for real-time video, audio and voice AI agents over WebRTC, for example to build group video calls or a talking AI assistant. Clients join rooms with LiveKit's SDKs; the server API (JSON over ...

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Coverr API

The Coverr API searches Coverr's library of free stock video clips by keyword and category and returns links to the MP4 files and thumbnails, for example to add background videos to a site builder. Responses are JSON. Free with a ...

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Daily API

The Daily API adds video and audio calls to a website or app: create rooms and meeting tokens with the REST API, then join them with Daily's prebuilt call UI or its JavaScript and mobile SDKs, with recording and live streaming ...

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Cloudinary

Cloudinary stores, transforms and delivers images and videos: resize, crop, convert, trim and add overlays by changing the delivery URL, and stream video with adaptive bitrate, for example to serve the right size of every upload. ...

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OpenSubtitles API

The OpenSubtitles API searches subtitles for films and episodes by title, IMDb or TMDB ID, file hash and language, and gives download links, for example to add subtitles to a media player. Send your key in the Api-Key header and ...

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Mux Video API

The Mux Video API uploads, encodes and streams on-demand video, for example to add video uploads and adaptive playback to an app. POST a video URL or a direct upload to create an asset and play it with HLS or Mux Player; webhooks ...

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