Media & entertainment
APIs serving music, video, podcasts, and entertainment metadata.
api.video
api.video is an API that encodes on the go to facilitate immediate playback, enhancing viewer streaming experiences across multiple devices and platforms. You can stream live or on-demand online videos within minutes.
APOD
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) API returns NASA's daily astronomy image — HD photo, expert caption, historical archive (since 1995).
ART19 Content API Documentation
The ART19 Content API conforms to the JSON:API specification.
Article Search API
New York Times Article Search API full-text-searches NYT articles from 1851 to present — filter by keyword, date, author, section.
Books API
New York Times Books API provides NYT bestseller list data — weekly-updated rankings across categories (fiction, non-fiction, children's, etc.).
Currents API
Currents API emphasizes multi-language coverage (21 languages) and rich metadata — articles return category, language, and emotion fields, useful for AI content-classification pipelines.
Giphy API
GIPHY API provides data from the world's largest GIF search engine — keyword search, trending, stickers, random GIFs.
GNews API
GNews.io is a Google News-backed search API focused on real-time news — 60K+ sources, multi-language, keyword and geo filters.
Jikan
The unofficial MyAnimeList REST API: no API key, no OAuth, no registration. It covers all public data — anime, manga, characters, people, seasonal charts, top lists, genres, producers, recommendations, and reviews. The public instance is capped at 3 req/sec and 60 req/min, served from a default 24-hour cache. It is strictly read-only because it reads MyAnimeList’s public pages and cannot authenticate as a user, so it cannot modify anyone’s list (writes need the official API). Open source (PHP/Laravel) and self-hostable via Docker to lift the shared-instance rate limit.
MediaStack
MediaStack is APILayer's news API, 7,500+ sources across 50+ countries and 13 languages, focused on real-time and historical news data.
Most Popular API
New York Times Most Popular API returns NYT's recent most-popular articles — sorted by views, emails, Facebook shares.
Movie Reviews API
New York Times Movie Reviews API provides NYT film review data — search by title/director/actor; includes "Critics' Pick" marks.
MyAnimeList API (Official)
MyAnimeList’s official API v2 (https://api.myanimelist.net/v2). Reading public data requires registering an app for a Client ID and sending an X-MAL-CLIENT-ID header; anything involving a specific user (reading/writing their anime/manga list, status, scores) requires the full OAuth2 authorization-code flow. It is the only MyAnimeList API that can authenticate as a user and write to a user’s list — exactly where it is irreplaceable versus the unofficial Jikan. Rate limits are unpublished; ~1 req/sec is the safe assumption in practice. Free.
NBA Stats API
NBA Stats API is the NBA's official game data interface — player/team stats, live scores, play-by-play, player profiles. Free but with informal access rules.
NewsAPI
NewsAPI.org aggregates 150,000+ global news sources via REST, across 14 languages and 55 countries. The most-asked-about news API on Stack Overflow.
OMDb
OMDb API provides movie, TV show, IMDb data — query by title or IMDb ID, returns cast, plot, ratings, poster URL.
OpenSea API
OpenSea API provides data access to the world's largest NFT marketplace — collections, individual NFT details, listings, offers, transaction history, ownership.
Radio & Music Services
BBC Radio & Music Services exposes broadcasts, categories, collections, podcasts, and popular music resources.
Runway API
Runway API provides AI video generation and editing — Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video, image-to-video, video effects; AI tools for film and advertising.
SearchLy API v1
The SearchLy API provides similarity searching based on song lyrics.
SeatGeek Platform API
SeatGeek Platform API aggregates multiple secondary ticket marketplaces and exposes events, venues, and price-range data, including SeatGeek's signature "Deal Score" rating.
Shutterstock API Explorer
Shutterstock API provides search and licensing for the world's largest stock library — 300M+ images, 30M+ videos, vectors, music, AI-generated content.
Sketchfab API
Sketchfab API provides data from the world's largest 3D model hub — search millions of 3D models, upload/download models, embed 3D viewers on web pages.
Spotify Web API
Spotify Web API lets apps search tracks, manage playlists, and control playback — the base layer for music integrations and recommendations.