Game and comics APIs open up rich datasets without scraping: item prices, character rosters, patch notes, card catalogs, and player stats. Community-maintained APIs (PokeAPI, D&D 5e) are free and CORS-friendly, ideal for side projects and hackathons. Official publisher APIs offer deeper data but usually require developer-portal registration and rate-limit keys.
| API | Pricing | Auth | CORS | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmiiboAPI Nintendo Amiibo Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Animal Crossing: New Horizons API API for critters, fossils, art, music, furniture and villagers | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| Astroworld API Free Minecraft data: mobs, biomes, items, enchantments, structures, commands, versions, achievements, trades | Free | Unknown | Yes | Profile | |
| Atlas Academy API for Fate/Grand Order game data | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Autochess VNG Rest Api for Autochess VNG | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Barter.VG Provides information about Game, DLC, Bundles, Giveaways, Trading | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Battle.net Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft game data APIs | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Blue Archive Provides Blue Archive characters information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Board Game Geek Board games, RPG and videogames | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Brawl Stars Brawl Stars Game Information | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| CSGO An unofficial JSON API for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Call of Duty Unofficial wrapper for the Call of Duty API with multi-language support. | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Call of Duty Mobile API Unofficial API for CODM player data and daily cache claiming | Unknown | API Key | Unknown | Profile | |
| CheapShark Steam/PC Game Prices and Deals | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Chess.com Chess.com read-only REST API | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Chess.com API Chess.com API: chess puzzles, player profiles, game archives, and leaderboards. | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Chuck Norris Database API Jokes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| Clash Royale Clash Royale Game Information | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Clash of Clans Clash of Clans Game Information | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Comic Vine Comics | Freemium | No | No | Profile | |
| Crafatar API for Minecraft skins and faces | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Cross Universe Cross Universe Card Data | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Deck of Cards Deck of Cards | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Destiny The Game Bungie Platform API | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Digimon Information Provides information about digimon creatures | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Digimon TCG Search for Digimon cards in digimoncard.io | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Disney Information of Disney characters | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Dota 2 Provides information about Player stats, Match stats, Rankings for Dota 2 | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Dungeons and Dragons Reference for 5th edition spells, classes, monsters, and more | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Dungeons and Dragons (Alternate) Includes all monsters and spells from the SRD (System Reference Document) as well as a search API | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Eight Ball Fortune-telling API with random, sentiment-biased, and multi-language responses | Freemium | No | No | Profile | |
| Epic Games Store API Epic Games Store API: game catalog, pricing, discounts, and store listings. | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| FFXIV Collect Final Fantasy XIV data on collectables | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Final Fantasy XIV Final Fantasy XIV Game data API | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| FreeToGame Free-To-Play Games Database | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| FunTranslations Translate Text into funny languages | Freemium | No | No | Profile | |
| GW2Spidy GW2Spidy API, Items data on the Guild Wars 2 Trade Market | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Game Brain Search and discover video games with AI | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| GamerPower Game Giveaways Tracker | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Geek-Jokes Fetch a random geeky/programming related joke for use in all sorts of applications | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Genshin Impact Genshin Impact game data | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Giant Bomb Video Games | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| GraphQL Pokemon GraphQL powered Pokemon API. Supports generations 1 through 8 | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Guild Wars 2 Guild Wars 2 Game Information | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Halo Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2 Information | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Hearthstone Hearthstone Cards Information | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Humble Bundle Humble Bundle's current bundles | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Humor Humor, Jokes, and Memes | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Hypixel Hypixel player stats | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Hyrule Compendium Data on all interactive items from The Legend of Zelda: BOTW | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| IGDB.com Video Game Database | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Italian Jokes JSON API for getting jokes about Italians | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| JokeAPI Programming, Miscellaneous and Dark Jokes | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Jokes One Joke of the day and large category of jokes accessible via REST API | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Lichess Access to all data of users, games, puzzles and etc on Lichess | Free | OAuth | Yes | Profile | |
| MMO Games MMO Games Database, News and Giveaways | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Magic The Gathering Magic The Gathering Game Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Marvel Marvel Comics | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Minecraft Server Status API to get Information about a Minecraft Server | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Mojang Mojang / Minecraft API | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Monster Hunter World Monster Hunter World data | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Open Trivia Trivia Questions | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| PUBG Access in-game PUBG data | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| PandaScore E-sports games and results | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Path of Exile Path of Exile Game Information | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| PlayerDB Query Minecraft, Steam and XBox Accounts | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| PokeAPI PokéAPI providing comprehensive Pokémon data: species, moves, abilities, items, types, and game versions as a free RESTful service. | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Poker Odds Equity EV Calculator & Advice Poker odds, equity & EV calculator with hand/decision advice | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| PokéAPI (GraphQL) The Unofficial GraphQL for PokeAPI | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Pokémon TCG Pokémon TCG Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Psychonauts Psychonauts World Characters Information and PSI Powers | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Puyo Nexus Puyo Puyo information from Puyo Nexus Wiki | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| RAWG Video Games Database API RAWG Video Games Database API covering 500,000+ games with metadata, ratings, screenshots, stores, and platform details. | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| RAWG.io 500,000+ games for 50 platforms including mobiles | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Raider Provides detailed character and guild rankings for Raiding and Mythic+ content in World of Warcraft | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Rick and Morty All the Rick and Morty information, including images | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Riot Games League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runetera and Valorant information | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Riot Games API Riot Games API for League of Legends, Valorant, TFT, and other titles: summoner data, match history, ranked ladders, and live game data. | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| RuneScape RuneScape and OSRS RPGs information | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| Sakura CardCaptor Sakura CardCaptor Cards Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Scryfall Magic: The Gathering database | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| SpaceTradersAPI A playable inter-galactic space trading MMOAPI | Free | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| Steam Internal Steam Web API documentation | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Steam Steam Web API documentation | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Steam Web API Official Steam Web API for player profiles, achievements, owned games, app news, and store data across the Steam platform. | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| TCGdex Multi languages Pokémon TCG Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| TETR.IO TETR.IO Tetra Channel API | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Tebex Tebex API for information about game purchases | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Universalis Final Fantasy XIV market board data | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Valorant (non-official) An extensive API containing data of most Valorant in-game items, assets and more | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Warface (non-official) Official API proxy with better data structure and more features | Free | No | Unknown | Profile | |
| Wargaming.net Wargaming.net info and stats | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| When is next MCU film Upcoming MCU film information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Wynncraft Wynncraft Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Information | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Zelda The Legend of Zelda franchise data | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| mod.io Cross Platform Mod API | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| moogleAPI Final Fantasy franchise data | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| quizapi.io Access to various kind of quiz questions | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| xkcd Retrieve xkcd comics as JSON | Free | No | No | Profile |
Start with pricing and auth: free tiers and no-auth APIs are fastest to prototype with. Then check CORS if your app calls the API from the browser, and health before you commit — a great API that's been down for a week will block your launch. Each profile below shows all of these signals plus rate limits where documented.