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jobs

Upwork

Freelance job board and management system

Access: OAuthType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

books

Urantia Papers

Full-text + semantic search across the Urantia Papers, with audio narration, entities, translations

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

open-data

Urban Observatory

The largest set of publicly available real time urban data in the UK

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: No · CORS: No

github-public-apis

government

Urban planning cadastre data, including geospatial data (EU Open Data · Ukraine)

European open dataset/API (Ukraine): The set contains information about the data of the urban planning cadastre, including geospatial data in the following formats: GeoTIFF, SHP, DMF, MID/MIF, DXF, XML, GeoJSON, GPX, LOC, ARINC, AIXM.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

profiles

health

Urgences Québec

Hourly emergency room occupancy, stretcher counts and wait times for every hospital in Quebec, Canada

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

science

Urgences Québec

Urgences Québec (Health): Hourly ER occupancy, patients waiting and mean stay duration for every ER in the Québec health ministry feed, archived since 10 Aug 2026

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

url-shorteners

UrlBae

Simple and efficient short link creation

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

developer-tools

Urlbox API

OpenAPI-specified web service (urlbox.io, version v1): A plugin that allows the user to capture screenshots of a web page from a URL or HTML using ChatGPT.

Type: API

profiles

developer-tools

urlfy

urlfy (URL Shorteners): A simple and fast URL shortening service

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

security

URLhaus

Database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

anti-malware

URLhaus

Bulk queries and Download Malware Samples

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

security

URLhaus Community API

Indicators and exports concerning malicious URLs from URLhaus.

Access: Personal API keyPrice: Free tier + paidType: API

profiles

developer-tools

Urlix

Urlix (URL Shorteners): Free URL Shortener with a powerful API

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

development

URLpipe

Turn a URL into Markdown, screenshots, metadata or Lighthouse audits, rendered in real Chrome

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

anti-malware

URLScan.io

Scan and Analyse URLs

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

data-validation

US Autocomplete

Enter address data quickly with real-time address suggestions

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

security

US Autocomplete

US Autocomplete (Data Validation): Enter address data quickly with real-time address suggestions

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

government

US Census Data API

US statistical tables with explicit geographic codes and vintages.

Access: Personal API keyPrice: FreeType: API

profiles

data-validation

US Extract

Extract postal addresses from any text including emails

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

security

US Extract

US Extract (Data Validation): Extract postal addresses from any text including emails

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

finance

US Mortgage Calculator

Mortgage payment, amortization, affordability and 50-state property tax data

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

weather

US National Weather Service

US weather information with location, forecast, and alert routes.

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

profiles

mcp-servers

US Recalls

Check US recalls from 9 agencies by UPC, model, NDC, lot or VIN; 4 read-only tools

Access: Personal API keyType: MCP server

github-public-apis

data-validation

US Street Address

Validate and append data for any US postal address

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

security

US Street Address

US Street Address (Data Validation): Validate and append data for any US postal address

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

weather

US Weather

US National Weather Service

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

geography

US Zip Codes

US Zip Codes (Geocoding): Complete data for US Zip Codes, distance, radius and statistics

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

geocoding

US ZipCode

Validate and append data for any US ZipCode

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

geography

US ZipCode

US ZipCode (Geocoding): Validate and append data for any US ZipCode

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

jobs

USAJOBS

US government job board

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

government

USAspending.gov

US federal spending data

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

books-media

Use a New Version Instead (icons8.com)

OpenAPI-specified web service (icons8.com, version 1.0.0): # Icons8 API Icons8 API allows us to search and obtain our icons. You're welcome to use our icons to extend the functionality of your web and mobile applications, website templates, and even tattoos. !Tattoos ## Usage Examples Some examples of what you can do with our icons: * **Template customization.** This way, Canv

Type: API

profiles

developer-tools

User API (vonage.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (vonage.com:user, version 1.11.8): The Vonage Business Cloud User API enables you to retrieve information about users. Your application must subscribe to the Provisioning API suite to use this API.

Type: API

profiles

development

Userstack

Secure User-Agent String Lookup JSON API

Access: OAuthType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

developer-tools

USGS

USGS (Disasters): Earthquake Data

Access: Personal API keyType: API

profiles

science

USGS Earthquake API

Select earthquake events by time, location, and attributes.

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

science-and-math

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Earthquakes data real-time

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

science-and-math

USGS Water Services

Water quality and level info for rivers and lakes

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

patent

USPTO

USA patent api services

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

finance

USTariffRates

US HTS lookup and origin-specific tariff breakdowns with source context

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

geocoding

Utah AGRC

Utah Web API for geocoding Utah addresses

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes

github-public-apis

development

Utilorax

203 JSON endpoints: hashing, encoding, unit conversion, text, dates and file conversion

Access: Personal API keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: Yes

github-public-apis

government

Uttarakhand State Board of School Education, Uttarakhand — ubseuk (apisetu.gov.in)

OpenAPI-specified service (apisetu.gov.in:ubseuk, version 3.0.0): Uttarakhand Board of School Education, Ramnagar (http://ubse.uk.gov.in/) has made available Class X (2018) & Class XII (2018) mark sheet-cum-certificate and migration certificates, which can be pulled by students into their DigiLocker accounts.

Type: API

profiles

language

UUID Generation API (fungenerators.com)

OpenAPI-specified service (fungenerators.com:uuid, version 1.5): A full featured, REST based UUID generator with json/xml/jsonp result support. You can try them out right here. Click here to subscribe

Type: API

profiles

test-data

UUID Generator

Generate UUIDs

Access: No keyType: API

HTTPS: Yes · CORS: No

github-public-apis

government

V - Car park Theater am Ring / V_E _V _14 _1978(WFS) (EU Open Data · Germany)

European open dataset/API (Germany): Surrounding the development plans of the city of Villingen-Schwenningen as a Web Feature Service (WFS)

Access: No keyPrice: FreeType: API

profiles

developer-tools

v.recipes DNS Accelerator

v.recipes DNS Accelerator (Development): The Accelerator variant can be used to test & accelerate any DoH providers

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

developer-tools

v.recipes Get IP

v.recipes Get IP (Development): A simple API to get information such as IP, ISP name, Location, etc. based on user request

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

transport

v6.db.transport.rest

An independent REST layer for German rail travel information.

Access: No keyType: API

profiles

geography

VA Facilities (va.gov)

OpenAPI-specified service (va.gov:facilities, version 0.0.1): ## Background This RESTful API provides information about physical VA facilities. Information available includes geographic location, address, phone, hours of operation, and available services. VA operates several different types of facilities, the types represented in this API include: - Health Facilities (vha) - Bene

Type: API

profiles

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