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πŸ†• blog! β€œAre there any open APIs left?”

One of the dreams of Web 2.0 was that website would speak unto website. An "Application Programming Interface" (API) would give programmatic access to structured data, allowing services to seamlessly integrate content from each other. Users would be able to quickly grab data from multiple sources and use them for their own purposes. No registration or …

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Are there any open APIs left?

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Simon Willison
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GitHub is worth a mention - a thing I really care about is open CORS headers, so that I can hit the API from my own client-side JavaScript - and GitHub serve *every public static file on the site* with open CORS headers via their CDN, including content in Gists

The GitHub API itself works without authentication for a lot of things, albeit with IP rate limiting

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@simon is the git protocol also served with cors headers? They weren't a decade ago, when I made a js git client and needed a proxy to fetch data from github
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This is great! Thanks for building such a cool website. πŸ™Œ πŸ¦‰ ✨
So many owls around where I live! 😍
Screenshot of a map of South Berlin with many blue dots, indicating owl sightings.
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