Twenty of the most practical APIs for builders — AI, messaging, payments, data, and more — each with a ready-to-run Python demo script. View the code, or follow the "Get a key" link to sign up and grab credentials. Every script's header repeats the exact sign-up steps.
Search movies and TV shows and pull rich metadata, posters, and ratings.
Accept payments online by creating PaymentIntents in a few lines.
Deliver transactional and marketing email at scale.
Current conditions and forecasts for any city on Earth.
Pull top headlines and search news articles from thousands of sources.
Read repositories, issues, and user data from the world's code host.
Send messages to a server channel through a webhook URL.
Build bots that send and receive messages on Telegram.
Lifelike, multilingual text-to-speech voice synthesis.
Accurate speech-to-text transcription for audio and video.
Search and embed millions of free, high-resolution stock photos.
Use a spreadsheet-database as a backend — list and edit records.
Search the music catalog and read track, artist, and album data.
Free space data — including the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Live currency conversion and foreign-exchange rates.
APIs get powerful when you combine them with hardware you already own. Here's a worked example that turns spare Android phones into motion-detecting security cameras, with a laptop as the brain — and it reuses the Telegram API above to send you alerts.
http://192.168.1.50:8080/shot.jpg.cv2.absdiff, and posts a snapshot to your Telegram bot when something moves.adb + scrcpy over USB/Wi-Fi instead.