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1. public-apis

   1 423 441,082 9.4 Python

   A collective list of free APIs

   

   Project mention: public-apis: what 438k stars actually buy you, and what they don't | dev.to | 2026-05-31

   Repository: public-apis/public-apis

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. fastapi

   2 594 99,095 9.9 Python

   FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

   

   Project mention: Shipping Sovereign SDK: Cryptographic Forensic Receipts and the End of the AI "Prose Tax" | dev.to | 2026-05-29

   The Sovereign SDK is a Python-native framework designed to minimize prose overhead while generating ironclad, cryptographic execution receipts for AI agents, complete with drop-in FastAPI/Starlette ASGI middleware.

4. ccxt

   3 78 42,823 10.0 Python

   A cryptocurrency trading API with more than 100 exchanges in JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C# / PHP / Go / Java

   

   Project mention: My bot ran for 48 hours and didn't do a thing | dev.to | 2026-05-23

   But to get fresh quotes, the bot polls the exchange's orderbook (via the wonderful but occasionally-temperamental ccxt library). And those polls were timing out — silently, in batches. Five-minute window: 215 orderbook timeouts. Same five-minute window: zero successful quote refreshes.

5. quivr

   4 24 39,155 9.1 Python

   Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.

   

6. httpie

   5 146 38,198 6.6 Python

   🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

   

   Project mention: 5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying | dev.to | 2026-05-07

   httpie is easier to read than curl when testing APIs manually.

7. django-rest-framework

   6 212 30,069 9.1 Python

   Web APIs for Django. 🎸

   

   Project mention: GraphQL vs REST: 18 Claims Fact-Checked with Primary Sources (2026) | dev.to | 2026-04-17

   Many REST frameworks also ship with limited security controls enabled by default. Express.js , a minimal web framework, does not include rate limiting or input validation out of the box and relies on middleware for these concerns. Django REST Framework includes throttling features, but they are not enabled by default.

8. skyvern

   7 23 21,893 10.0 Python

   Automate browser based workflows with AI

   

   Project mention: Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-11

9. Douyin_TikTok_Download_API

   8 3 18,283 7.2 Python

   🚀「Douyin_TikTok_Download_API」是一个开箱即用的高性能异步抖音、快手、TikTok、Bilibili数据爬取工具，支持API调用，在线批量解析及下载。

   

10. public-api-lists

    9 17 14,719 8.6 Python

    A curated list of free public APIs across 48 categories — searchable, community-maintained, with a free JSON API.

    

11. LibreTranslate

    10 83 14,535 9.4 Python

    Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

    

    Project mention: We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-18

12. FlareSolverr

    11 41 14,264 7.7 Python

    Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection

    

    Project mention: I Built a Self-Hosted RSS Reader with AI Summarization, Translation, and an MCP Server | dev.to | 2026-03-16

    For sites requiring JavaScript rendering, FlareSolverr (Headless Chrome) handles it.

13. httpbin

    12 90 13,565 0.0 Python

    HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask.

    

    Project mention: Spoofing Your Scraper's Fingerprint Is a Losing Arcade | dev.to | 2026-06-01

    probing: https://httpbin.org behavior scorecard (4/4 good-citizen checks) ------------------------------------------------------------ [PASS] backs off on 429 429 carried no Retry-After; applied exponential backoff [PASS] spaces out retries gaps [2.58, 3.67]s — growing, not hammering [PASS] sends conditional GET re-sent the ETag as If-None-Match [PASS] accepts 304 (saves bandwidth) server answered 304, skipped 277 bytes ------------------------------------------------------------ reused one session for all requests: yes

14. gorilla

    13 54 12,892 8.5 Python

    Gorilla: Training and Evaluating LLMs for Function Calls (Tool Calls)

    

    Project mention: Sub-Agent Architectures: Patterns, Trade-offs, and a Kotlin Implementation | dev.to | 2026-03-23

    Tool confusion — a model with 20 tools tends to make worse decisions than one with 5 (tool-use accuracy degrades with scale; see the Gorilla LLM benchmark for empirical evidence)

15. Gymnasium

    14 14 12,038 8.7 Python

    An API standard for single-agent reinforcement learning environments, with popular reference environments and related utilities (formerly Gym)

    

16. falcon

    15 9 9,797 8.7 Python

    The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale.

    

17. HTTP Prompt

    16 4 9,116 0.0 Python

    An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

    

18. TikTokDownload

    17 1 8,519 7.3 Python

    抖音去水印批量下载用户主页作品、喜欢、收藏、图文、音频

    

19. litestar

    18 34 8,277 9.4 Python

    Light, flexible and extensible ASGI framework | Built to scale

    

    Project mention: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-16

    A lot of people in this thread mentioning the limitations of Flask and “why not FastAPI” etc - but I’ve found Litestar to be the best alternative and it has htmx support out of the box.

    https://litestar.dev/

20. python-binance

    19 21 7,170 7.6 Python

    Binance Exchange API python implementation for automated trading

    

21. airweave

    20 4 6,437 10.0 Python

    Open-source context retrieval layer for AI agents

    

    Project mention: Launch HN: Airweave (YC X25) – Let agents search any app | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-30

22. TikTok-Api

    21 40 6,424 4.7 Python

    The Unofficial TikTok API Wrapper In Python

    

23. klavis

    22 13 5,747 9.8 Python

    Klavis AI: MCP integration platforms that let AI agents use tools reliably at any scale

    

    Project mention: Workday to Acquire Pipedream | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-20

    Try https://www.klavis.ai, which is a open source MCP integration platform.

24. pokeapi

    23 5 5,227 9.4 Python

    The Pokémon API

    

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