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| API Name | Description | Category | Followers | Versions |
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| What Does Trump Think | This endpoint gets you all generic Donald Trump quotes. Various other endpoints gets a personalized Donald Trump quote or a random quote. | Politics | 37 | REST v1.0 |
| throwawaymail getalias | The throwawaymail getalias API allows users to generate usernames or aliases, such as pointedtomahawk547 and accurateokapi14. The API can generate more than 22 billion unique aliases. Requests are... | Random | 3 | REST v1.0 |
| Be Like Bill | The Be Like Bill API is used to integrate "Be Like Bill" meme creation functionality to websites. The Be Like Bill meme is a stick figure that ignores trolling or offensive behavior that he runs... | Engagement | 34 | REST |
| Random German identities and names generator | The Random German Identities and Names Generator API generates profiles that can be useful to test applications. Personal data includes first name, last name, birthday, age, gender, address data,... | Random | 16 | REST |
| Namey | The Namey API access the U.S. Census Bureau to combine last and first names to create randomized names. The API can be applied to random user profile generation in a social network setting. The... | Names | 17 | REST |
| Astrocast | The Astrocast API communicates small bites of astronomical knowledge to any application using a GET method and JSON protocol. These details include astronomical planetary names, taxonomy, and related... | Astronomy | 9 | REST |
| RandomProfile | RandomProfile is a profile generation service where users can create profiles for use in testing and software creation. The RandomProfile API uses REST calls, returns XML, CSV, or JSON. On each call... | Database | 20 | REST |
| The Cat | The Cat API is a free web service providing developer access to random cat pictures. API users can specify the number of returned results, image type, image size, and the category of the cat picture... | Photos | 59 | REST |
| RandomUser | RandomUser is an API providing developers with randomly generated users to be used as placeholders for testing purposes. This makes the tool similar to Lorem Ipsum, but is a placeholder for people... | Tools | 33 | REST |
| WebKnox Jokes | Begun as a research project from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Technology Dresden, WebKnox is an ontology-driven fact extraction engine built to provide direct,... | Tools | 21 | REST v1.0 |
| Tarya Technologies RandomQuotes | Tarya Technologies is a UK-based web development and programming company. On their website, they provide a handful of simple SOAP APIs that, as of this writing, are free to use. One of these is the... | Entertainment | 6 | RPC |
| Swanand Mokashi Quote Of The Day | Swanand Mokashi is the founder and CEO of Malaika Consultants LLC, a software consulting company that also offers web design and web hosting services. On his website, Swanand provides a Quote Of The... | Entertainment | 10 | RPC |
| ANU Quantum Random Number Generator | The Australian National University (ANU) provides free, truly random numbers to the public. The numbers are considered to be "truly random", because they are generated by measuring the quantum... | Tools | 20 | REST |
| Seth Cardoza Random Password Generator | Random Password Generator is a tool created by programmer Seth Cardoza, capable of generating random passwords to meet specified criteria. Users can select from several password length and complexity... | Security | 7 | REST |
| Play Truly Random | Play Truly Random is a web service that provides physics-based random bits for games and interactive media, and derives randomness from game processes. Play Truly Random’s entropy bit pool is... | Tools | 5 | REST |
| SetGetGo Random Image | The Random Image API provides users with a simple GET call to generate a random image from the web. Users can specify image height and width, and have the option of generating a random Mandelbrot... | Tools | 12 | REST |
| SetGetGo Random Word | [Editor's Note: This API is no longer available.] The Random Word API provides users with a simple GET call to generate a random word. Random Word is a RESTful API built upon the Get/Set API... | Tools | 46 | REST |
| SellsBrothers Excuse | SellsBrothers is the internet home of Chris Sells, Developer Tools at Telerik. SellsBrothers provides a number of services, including the Excuse API, which enables users to retrieve a random excuse... | Entertainment | 6 | RPC |
| FullerData Fortune Cookie | The FullerData Fortune Cookie API enables users to programmatically retrieve a random fortune. The "fortunes" are quotes from sci-fi novels, philosophers, anonymous sources, poets, and others. There... | Entertainment | 10 | RPC |
| Passphrase Random Password | The service generates and returns a random password string that can be recorded as a user login credential and provided to the user for later access. One use case for this function would be the... | Security | 4 | RPC |
| Numbers | The Numbers API is a site to explore facts about numbers. Enter a number and receive a random fact, such as "15 is the number of days in each of the 24 cycles of the Chinese calendar." In addition to... | Reference | 24 | REST v1.0 |
| Flyhour | FlyHour is a web site where users can be shown Youtube videos randomly to aid in music and new video discovery. Users also have the option to filter the videos shown by specific country, within a... | Video | 6 | REST |
| Alagad Fortune | The Fortune API displays a random phrase from a database of quotations, much like one would find in a fortune cookie. This simple API runs over SOAP. | Entertainment | 7 | RPC |
| XML Daily Fact | This SOAP-based API allows the user to place a widget on their website that returns an XML daily fact. Daily facts focus on XML web services and the use of XML within the Microsoft .NET Framework. | Random | 6 | RPC |
| .NET Daily Fact | This SOAP-based API allows the user to place a widget on their website that returns a fact of the day reflecting all aspects of the .NET platform. | Random | 91 | RPC |