# 30 Days of API Testing Day 5: Publicly Available APIs to Practice API Testing **URL:** \ **Category:** 30 Days of Testing\ **Tags:** 30-days-of-testing, practice, api-testing, resources\ **Created:** [2 November 2018 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648 "2018-11-02T08:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![shirin.panna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@shirin.panna](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/shirin.panna)\ **Post date:** [10 December 2019 18:04 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/43 "2019-12-10T18:04:51Z")
Hello Everyone- I am participating in 30 days of API testing by myself for the month of December. I am going to post my Day-5 as instructed. I found this API to practice API testing on called [www.mockapi.io](http://www.mockapi.io) It looks cool. You can create your own project with API prefixes. It will require sometime to learn the product. I am sure it shouldn’t be that difficult to learn. I had no idea there are sites you can practice API testing on. This is amazing. I also recently started a blog if you guys would like to visit the blog it is [www.shirinbashar.com](http://www.shirinbashar.com) ---
**Author:** ![bhollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bhollister](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/bhollister)\ **Post date:** [15 June 2020 19:53 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/44 "2020-06-15T19:53:13Z")
[www.swapi.io](http://www.swapi.io) - Star Wars API ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [29 July 2020 12:33 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/45 "2020-07-29T12:33:50Z")
I’ve just seen this posted today by @alan which could be useful for folks picking up this challenge later 🙂 > **[API Testing Challenge Activities - a gamified playground to practice API Testing](https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/apichallenges/2020-07-28-announcement/)** > > How can you learn and practice API Testing? With a set of challenges designed to guide you through the basic technlogies and principles. ---
**Author:** ![restertest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/restertest/32/9342_2.png) [@restertest](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/restertest)\ **Post date:** [12 March 2021 06:17 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/46 "2021-03-12T06:17:51Z")
Finding an API that you can actually use for your tests is not an easy task. I for one try to search and make a video about a nice API at least once a month. For those who are not sure what API to use have a look at the below link, it contains about 100 APIs from different sections ( from animal to Start Wars ) 🙂 [https://betterprogramming.pub/a-curated-list-of-100-cool-and-fun-public-apis-to-inspire-your-next-project-7600ce3e9b3](https://betterprogramming.pub/a-curated-list-of-100-cool-and-fun-public-apis-to-inspire-your-next-project-7600ce3e9b3) ---
**Author:** ![restertest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/restertest/32/9342_2.png) [@restertest](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/restertest)\ **Post date:** [25 March 2021 07:05 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/47 "2021-03-25T07:05:29Z")
An update here. I found a new site with public APIS which I wanted to share > **[Public APIs — A Directory of Free Public & Open Rest APIs](https://public-apis.io/)** > > A collective list of more than 1000 Free Public and Open REST APIs for developers like movie APIs, Anime APIs, weather APIs, music APIs, games and comics APIs, currency APIs, sports APIs, science APIs, open data APIs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)\ **Post date:** [25 March 2021 08:53 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/48 "2021-03-25T08:53:15Z")
I often use [https://developer.paypal.com/](https://developer.paypal.com/) to try out new rest frameworks. ---
**Author:** ![m.zn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/m.zn/32/8715_2.png) [@m.zn](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/m.zn)\ **Post date:** [16 September 2021 10:09 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/49 "2021-09-16T10:09:38Z")
Request: ```auto https://cataas.com/cat?json=true ``` Response will return a random cat in a JSON object ```json {"id":"5ac32b1761d533000f42c537","created_at":"2018-04-03T07:19:51.439Z","tags":["facecat"],"url":"/cat/5ac32b1761d533000f42c537"} ``` Here we are 😀: [![](https://cataas.com/cat/5ac32b1761d533000f42c537) ](https://cataas.com/cat/5ac32b1761d533000f42c537) There are so many resources on the Internet. You can even find multiple APIs related to cats. Check them out. Other cat-related APIs and resources to learn API and have fun - [https://http.cat/](https://http.cat/) - [GitHub - httpcats/http.cat: HTTP Cats API](https://github.com/httpcats/http.cat) - [https://catfact.ninja/](https://catfact.ninja/) [![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/235b9b848171fc04cbcf106c86a25f71ab8ee05e1814af3189183d865cf4ffc0/68747470733a2f2f687474702e6361742f323034) ](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/235b9b848171fc04cbcf106c86a25f71ab8ee05e1814af3189183d865cf4ffc0/68747470733a2f2f687474702e6361742f323034) ---
**Author:** ![roy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@roy1](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/roy1)\ **Post date:** [24 February 2024 18:57 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/50 "2024-02-24T18:57:59Z")
Practicesoftwaretesting(dot)com comes in 6 different versions. Also a version with close to 80 bugs ‘on purpose It has a nice Rest API, fully documented with Swagger. ---
**Author:** ![iyer.8798](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/65b543/32.png) [@iyer.8798](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/iyer.8798)\ **Post date:** [1 March 2025 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/51 "2025-03-01T08:00:48Z")
Some resources worth checking out: - [Free API - 90+ Public APIs For Testing [No Key] - Apipheny](https://apipheny.io/free-api) - [Free and Fake APIs You Can Use to Practice Front End Development - DEV Community](https://dev.to/aumayeung/free-and-fake-apis-you-can-use-to-practice-front-end-development-4eck) ---
**Author:** ![ujjwal.singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ujjwal.singh/32/13861_2.png) [@ujjwal.singh](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ujjwal.singh)\ **Post date:** [3 March 2025 15:07 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/52 "2025-03-03T15:07:36Z")
Even though lots of free api are available publicly and most of them, folks have already shared here but somehow I prefer postman resources for API Testing: [Postman](https://www.postman.com/explore/popular-apis) ---
**Author:** ![rosie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/rosie/32/7719_2.png) [@rosie](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/rosie)\ **Post date:** [23 October 2026 17:27 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-api-testing-day-5-publicly-available-apis-to-practice-api-testing/19648/53 "2026-10-23T17:27:44Z")
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