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Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily by jonathrg on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @05:32PM (#41373321)
I don't really understand why one would build an HTTP API for this. I can't imagine the database being more than a few megabytes, the whole thing could probably be served as a JSON file.
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Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily by thi2 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:26PM (#41374370)
I assume it's intended to be used in an educational context. Learning how to work with a simple API is more fun that way.
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Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily by 082349872349872 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:38AM (#41377727)
The last category on the left sidebar is "FHGR", which I'm guessing stands for Fachhochschule Graubünden, and indeed under IM2 we find:

> APIs handpicked by the University of Applied Sciences of Grisons for their IM2 JavaScript programming course...

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Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily by thaliaarchi on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:26AM (#41379895)
That explains why there’s so many Swiss APIs.
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