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APIS projects on GitHub

Catalogs and specifications of public and internal APIs.

As of , the most-starred APIS projects on GitHub are public-apis (489.6K stars), n8n (207.7K stars) and kong (44.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 APIS repositories with 879.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was public-apis, with +373 stars in a day.

11Projects
879.5KStars in total
+575Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+373

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 489.6K

A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

+184

n8n

n8n-io/n8n · ★ 207.7K

n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform for building and deploying AI agents and automations. It combines a visual canvas with custom code and connects to 1500+ integrations.

+10

public-api-lists

public-api-lists/public-api-lists · ★ 16.1K

A community-maintained, hand-curated catalog of 730+ free public APIs across 48 categories — from Animals and Anime to Weather.

+2

kong

Kong/kong · ★ 44.3K

Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

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11 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · public-apis/public-apis

    public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

    489.6K
  2. #2 · n8n-io/n8n

    n8n

    n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform for building and deploying AI agents and automations. It combines a visual canvas with custom code and connects to 1500+ integrations.

    207.7K
  3. #3 · Kong/kong

    kong

    Kong is a cloud-native API gateway that also acts as an AI and MCP gateway, handling routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices and LLM/agentic traffic.

    44.3K
  1. 4

    OpenAPI-Specification

    31.3KOAI/OpenAPI-Specification · Markdown

    The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a community-driven open standard from the OpenAPI Initiative, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project: a standard, programming language-agnostic way to describe HTTP APIs.

  2. 5

    NeteaseCloudMusicApi

    30.2KBinaryify/NeteaseCloudMusicApi

    NeteaseCloudMusicApi is an open-source Node.js API service that wraps Netease Cloud Music, one of China's largest music streaming platforms, so your code can talk to it over HTTP. It has collected about 30,000 GitHub stars since 2016.

  3. 6

    sails

    22.8Kbalderdashy/sails · JavaScript

    Sails.js is a realtime MVC web framework for Node.js, designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade apps and APIs, with a structure inspired by Ruby on Rails.

  4. 7

    public-api-lists

    16.1Kpublic-api-lists/public-api-lists

    A community-maintained, hand-curated catalog of 730+ free public APIs across 48 categories — from Animals and Anime to Weather.

  5. 8

    hapi

    14.8Khapijs/hapi · JavaScript

    hapi (@hapi/hapi) is a Node.js web framework for building powerful, scalable applications with minimal overhead and full out-of-the-box functionality — 'your code, your way'.

  6. 9

    pipedream

    11.7KPipedreamHQ/pipedream · JavaScript

    Pipedream is a free, hosted integration platform for developers that lets you connect APIs and build event-driven automations, with over 1,000 pre-built app integrations.

  7. 10

    jwt-go

    10.7Kdgrijalva/jwt-go · Go

    A Go library implementing JSON Web Tokens (JWT): it parses, verifies, generates, and signs tokens.

  8. 11

    morloc

    219morloc-project/morloc · Rust

    Morloc is a strongly-typed, polyglot compiler: it composes functions written in different languages under one common type system and turns each module into a CLI, an API and an MCP server.

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