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developer-tools

PeeringDB REST API

Structured directory of global Internet Exchange Points (such as AMS-IX and NL-ix), colocation facilities, networks and peering policies.

Access: Personal API keyPrice: FreeType: API

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developer-tools

PeeringManagementClient (azure.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (azure.com:peering, version 2019-07-01-preview): APIs to manage Peering resources through the Azure Resource Manager.

Type: API

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language

OpenAPI-specified web service (cpy.re, version 5.1.0): The PeerTube API is built on HTTP(S) and is RESTful. You can use your favorite HTTP/REST library for your programming language to use PeerTube. The spec API is fully compatible with openapi-generator which generates a client SDK in the language of your choice - we generate some client SDKs automatically: - Python - Go

Type: API

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government

PEGELONLINE REST interface (EU Open Data · Germany)

European open dataset/API (Germany): PEGELONLINE REST-API is a simple interface to retrieve different aquatic information from PEGELONLINE. The API is resource-oriented, i.e. a number of resources are defined that can be uniquely addressed via HTTP URLs. The resources can be represented in different ways, i.e. in different formats. Currently, JSON notatio

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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security

Pendo Feedback API

OpenAPI-specified web service (pendo.io, version 1.0.0): ## Who is this for? This documentation is for developers creating their own integration with Feedback's API. If you are doing a standard integration, there's a really easy Javascript integration that you should know about before you go to the effort of building your own integration. ## Authentication API calls generall

Type: API

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books

Penguin Publishing

Books, book covers and related data

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

books-media

People API (googleapis.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (googleapis.com:people, version v1): Provides access to information about profiles and contacts.

Type: API

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business

PeopleSearch

People and company search in plain English, with verified work emails and email verification

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

developer-tools

Perchance as a Service

Perchance as a Service (Personality): Returns a random maybe as JSON or plain text

Access: No keyType: API

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developer-tools

perfectpdf api (scideas.net)

OpenAPI-specified web service (scideas.net, version 1.0): The perfectpdf api does one thing, perfectly: it converts html to pdf. The perfectpdf api uses headless Google Chrome to provide a low cost, high quality, simple to use service.

Type: API

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government

PermisAPI

PermisAPI (Government): 311k French building permits (Sitadel) with geocoding, webhooks, Python SDK

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personality

Personality.fyi

Free MBTI personality types and OEJTS test scoring

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

business

Personalized Offers — PersonalizedLoyaltyOffers (mastercard.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (mastercard.com:PersonalizedLoyaltyOffers, version 1.3): This API provides content for financial instutions participating in Mastercard Personalized Offers to use in online and mobile banking applications for cardholders.

Type: API

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language

Personalizer Client — cognitiveservices-Personalizer (azure.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (azure.com:cognitiveservices-Personalizer, version v1.0): Personalizer Service is an Azure Cognitive Service that makes it easy to target content and experiences without complex pre-analysis or cleanup of past data. Given a context and featurized content, the Personalizer Service returns which content item to show to users in rewardActionId. As rewards are sent in response to

Type: API

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geography

Personen in loondienst met een niet-Nederlandse nationaliteit (Overheid Open Data)

Dutch public-sector open dataset and API ("Personen in loondienst met een niet-Nederlandse nationaliteit") registered in the national data.overheid.nl catalog. Original Dutch description: Werknemers met niet - Nederlandse nationaliteit. Naar geslacht, leeftijd, bedrijfstak en nationaliteit Jaarlijks, 1979 - 1998 Gewijzigd op 08 maart 2001. Verschijningsfrequentie: Stopgezet.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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geography

Personen met VUT-uitkering of vervroegd pensioen (Overheid Open Data)

Dutch public-sector open dataset and API ("Personen met VUT-uitkering of vervroegd pensioen") registered in the national data.overheid.nl catalog. Original Dutch description: Personen met vervroegde uittreding of vervroegde pensionering naar uitkering status en geslacht 1996 - 2000 Gewijzigd op 27 februari 2002. Verschijningsfrequentie: Stopgezet.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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geography

Personen naar inkomensgroepen (Overheid Open Data)

Dutch public-sector open dataset and API ("Personen naar inkomensgroepen") registered in the national data.overheid.nl catalog. Original Dutch description: Inkomen van personen naar kenmerken van personen, inkomensgroepen, populatie en inkomensbegrip. 1990 - 2000 Gewijzigd op 14 april 2003. Verschijningsfrequentie: Stopgezet.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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geography

Personen naar inkomensgroepen per kenmerk (Overheid Open Data)

Dutch public-sector open dataset and API ("Personen naar inkomensgroepen per kenmerk") registered in the national data.overheid.nl catalog. Original Dutch description: Hoogste en gemiddelde inkomens naar kenmerken van personen, inkomensgroepen (10% - of 25%), populatie en inkomensbegrippen 1990 - 2000 Gewijzigd op 14 april 2003. Verschijningsfrequentie: Stopgezet.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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business

Personnel Data (personio.de)

OpenAPI-specified web service (personio.de, version 1.0): API for reading and writing personnel data incl. data about attendances and absences

Type: API

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machine-learning

Perspective

NLP API to return probability that if text is toxic, obscene, insulting or threatening

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

books-media

Perspective Comment Analyzer API — commentanalyzer (googleapis.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (googleapis.com:commentanalyzer, version v1alpha1): The Perspective Comment Analyzer API provides information about the potential impact of a comment on a conversation (e.g. it can provide a score for the "toxicity" of a comment). Users can leverage the "SuggestCommentScore" method to submit corrections to improve Perspective over time. Users can set the "doNotStore" fl

Type: API

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animals-nature

Petfinder

Petfinder (Animals): Information and images of dog breeds

Access: No keyType: API

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developer-tools

Petstore MCP Server (ai.com.mcp/petstore MCP Server)

MCP server (ai.com.mcp/petstore v0.6.0): Swagger Petstore API (v1.0.27) as MCP for testing and prototyping powered by the HAPI MCP server

Type: API

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photography

Pexafy

Semantic image search across 9+ free stock photo sources with a unified JSON schema

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

photography

Pexels

Free Stock Photos and Videos

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

government

PGIMER, Chandigarh (apisetu.gov.in)

OpenAPI-specified service (apisetu.gov.in:pgimer, version 3.0.0): The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh provides patient's clinical laboratory reports to DigiLocker.

Type: API

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government

PH (UK Open Government Data)

UK public-sector open dataset and API ("PH") registered on data.gov.uk: PH from Environment Agency's WIMS data archive.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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security

PhantAuth

OpenAPI-specified web service (phantauth.net, version 1.0.0): Random User Generator + OpenID Connect Provider. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for user accounts and authentication. The PhantAuth API documentation is available on the following API documentation sites: - apiary (primary source) - speca - PhantAuth Developer Portal ### TL;DR **PhantAuth was designed to simplify testing for ap

Type: API

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government

Pharmacies in the Lazio Region (EU Open Data · Italy)

European open dataset/API (Italy): The dataset contains the complete list of pharmacies open to the public (also including branches, dispensaries and seasonal dispensaries), in particular: -Pharmacy details: Ministerial Identification Code, Name, VAT Number, Pharmacy Code assigned by the ASL; -Location data of the Pharmacy: Full address (including Via,

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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business

Pharos API

Pharos API (Cryptocurrency): Stablecoin risk, peg, liquidity, safety score, blacklist, mint/burn, yield, and chain-health data

Access: Personal API keyType: API

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anti-malware

Phisherman

IP/domain/URL reputation

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

music

Phishin

A web-based archive of legal live audio recordings of the improvisational rock band Phish

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

security

PhishStats

Phishing database

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

phone

Phone Specification

Rest Api for Phone specifications

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

phone

Phone Validation

Validate phone numbers globally

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

government

Phosphorus recovery from liquid digestate by chemical precipitation using low-cost ion sources (EU Open Data · Europe)

European open dataset/API (Europe): BACKGROUND Phosphorus (P) recovered and recycled from agricultural waste, such precipitation of struvite (MgNH4PO4.6H2O) and calcium phosphates from the effluent after anaerobic digestion of wastes, is an important approach to developing environmentally sustainable fertilizers. However, for controlled phosphorus precip

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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developer-tools

Photo Mosaic & AI Collage Maker - Collager.ai (ai.collager/ai-collage-maker MCP Server)

MCP server (ai.collager/ai-collage-maker v0.1.0): Photo mosaic maker and AI photo collage maker: turn your own photos into a mosaic or a collage.

Type: API

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geography

Photon

An OpenStreetMap-based geocoder with search queries and a self-hostable server.

Access: No keyType: API

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photography

PhotoRoom

Remove background from images

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

art-and-design

PHP-Noise

Noise Background Image Generator

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

developer-tools

PHPhub

PHPhub (Development): Validate PHP code

Access: No keyType: API

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business

PI Web API 2018 SP1 Swagger Spec (osisoft.com)

OpenAPI-specified web service (osisoft.com, version 1.11.1.5383): Swagger Spec file that describes PI Web API

Type: API

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government

PIA IIIF API (EU Open Data · Switzerland)

European open dataset/API (Switzerland): The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years (1860 - 1970) of private photographs of the family Kreis in Basel. The second collection contains the photographic work of the Swiss journalis

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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government

PIA Metadata API (EU Open Data · Switzerland)

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

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business

Pick an Agency

Search 47,000+ marketing agencies by service, location and rating

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

art-and-design

PickShade

Convert colors, check WCAG and APCA contrast, build palettes, gradients and tokens

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

books-media

PikaSim

PikaSim (Transportation): Purchase travel eSIMs programmatically for 190+ countries

Access: Personal API keyType: API

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security

Pims

OpenAPI-specified web service (pims.io, version 1.0): Hereafter is the documentation of the private API of Pims: Pointages Intelligents pour le Monde du Spectacle. This API is designed for 3rd-party softwares, editors and partners. Its main purpose is to give access the core data of a Pims customer (i.e. events, ticket counts and promotions). ## Authentication The API use

Type: API

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cloud-storage-and-file-sharing

Pinata

IPFS Pinning Services API

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

geocoding

Pinball Map

A crowdsourced map of public pinball machines

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

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