free-apis-catalog

Name: free-apis-catalog
Author: jamditis

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How to install free-apis-catalog?

jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/free-apis-catalog

$npx -y skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill free-apis-catalog

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Use when suggesting APIs for a project, looking for free data sources, building weekend projects that need external data, or when the user needs weather, news, finance, sports, ML, or entertainment data without paid subscriptions

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SKILL.md

1	# Free APIs catalog (journalism-curated)
2
3	A short list of free APIs that work for journalism, research, and weekend projects under current free-tier conditions. The value here is curation under verified 2026 free-tier limits — not coverage. For breadth, defer to the canonical aggregator below.
4
5	## Canonical breadth reference
6
7	For a near-complete inventory of free public APIs across every category (1000+ entries, actively maintained), use:
8
9	- public-apis/public-apis on GitHub — https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
10
11	Not archived, last commit verified 2026-05-09, 4,600+ commits, 6,000+ merged PRs. When you need an API outside the categories below, search there first.
12
13	This skill curates the journalism-relevant subset.
14
15	## Recently sunset / changed (don't use)
16
17	\| API \| Status \| What to use instead \|
18	\|---\|---\|---\|
19	\| IEX Cloud \| Fully retired 2024-08-31. https://iexcloud.org/ \| Alpha Vantage, Tiingo IEX, Financial Modeling Prep, Polygon \|
20	\| CrowdTangle \| Sunset 2024-08-14 \| Meta Content Library (academic/non-profit-research only — most journalists ineligible). https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/meta-content-library/ \|
21	\| ProPublica Congress API \| Retired 2024-07-10, repo archived. https://www.propublica.org/nerds/congress-api-update \| api.congress.gov (Library of Congress, free with api.data.gov key) \|
22	\| X / Twitter API free tier \| Effectively eliminated for new developers as of Feb 2026; pay-per-use only. Uncertain on exact figures (provider pricing page returned 402). Treat as paid. \| No free replacement; closest free alternatives are Bluesky Jetstream + Mastodon \|
23	\| Reddit API \| Free for research/non-commercial only since June 2023; paid for commercial use. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/ \| (Same — usable for journalism research, prohibited for monetized products) \|
24	\| Hugging Face Inference API \| Rebranded to Inference Providers (router across 20+ providers). Free users now get $0.10/month in credits, down from previous unmetered free tier for many models. https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing \| Free tier still works for low-volume / embeddings; paid for production \|
25
26	## Journalism-curated short list
27
28	All entries below verified against provider pages on 2026-05-09 unless marked uncertain. Always confirm rate limits against the provider's live developer docs before depending on them in production.
29
30	### News monitoring
31
32	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
33	\|---\|---\|---\|
34	\| [GDELT 2.0](https://gdeltproject.org/data.html) \| Fully free, no auth \| Global news + knowledge graph, updates every 15 min, BigQuery-mirrored. Strong for cross-border / longitudinal monitoring. \|
35	\| [NewsAPI](https://newsapi.org/pricing) \| 100 req/day, 24h delay, 1mo window, dev-only \| Commercial use prohibited on free tier. Not usable in shipped products. \|
36	\| [GNews](https://gnews.io/#pricing) \| 100 req/day, 30d window, 12h delay, non-commercial \| 10 articles/request cap. \|
37	\| [Mediastack](https://mediastack.com/pricing) \| 100 req/month, 30-min delay \| Functionally a demo. \|
38	\| [NYT Article Search / Top Stories](https://developer.nytimes.com/) \| Free with key, daily cap (uncertain — verify) \| Solid for archival queries. \|
39
40	### Social platforms (post-API-monetization landscape)
41
42	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
43	\|---\|---\|---\|
44	\| [Bluesky Jetstream](https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream) \| Public WebSocket firehose, no auth \| Real-time public-post stream. 4 official instances. Caveat: not formally part of AT Protocol — no long-term stability commitment. \|
45	\| [Bluesky AppView](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/rate-limits) \| Public read endpoints, 3000 req / 5min IP-based \| Auth needed for write ops. Profiles, posts, search. \|
46	\| [Mastodon](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/) \| Per-instance, OAuth, public endpoints often unauth-readable \| Federated — coverage is server-by-server. \|
47	\| [Threads (Meta)](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads) \| Free pricing not surfaced on docs page (uncertain — verify) \| Read/post/reply/search/insights/webhooks. \|
48	\| [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/) \| 100 QPM authenticated, 10 QPM unauthenticated, non-commercial only \| Adequate for OSINT/research, prohibited for monetized products. \|
49	\| [Meta Content Library](https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/meta-content-library/) \| Academic / non-profit researchers only \| Most journalists need a university partner to qualify. \|
50	\| [TikTok Research API](https://developers.tiktok.com/products/research-api/) \| Academic-affiliated researchers only \| Same eligibility gate as MCL. \|
51
52	### Government / public records (US)
53
54	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
55	\|---\|---\|---\|
56	\| [api.data.gov umbrella key](https://api.data.gov/) \| One key for 25+ federal

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How to install free-apis-catalog?

jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/free-apis-catalog

$npx -y skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill free-apis-catalog

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Free APIs catalog (journalism-curated)
2
3	A short list of free APIs that work for journalism, research, and weekend projects under current free-tier conditions. The value here is curation under verified 2026 free-tier limits — not coverage. For breadth, defer to the canonical aggregator below.
4
5	## Canonical breadth reference
6
7	For a near-complete inventory of free public APIs across every category (1000+ entries, actively maintained), use:
8
9	- public-apis/public-apis on GitHub — https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
10
11	Not archived, last commit verified 2026-05-09, 4,600+ commits, 6,000+ merged PRs. When you need an API outside the categories below, search there first.
12
13	This skill curates the journalism-relevant subset.
14
15	## Recently sunset / changed (don't use)
16
17	\| API \| Status \| What to use instead \|
18	\|---\|---\|---\|
19	\| IEX Cloud \| Fully retired 2024-08-31. https://iexcloud.org/ \| Alpha Vantage, Tiingo IEX, Financial Modeling Prep, Polygon \|
20	\| CrowdTangle \| Sunset 2024-08-14 \| Meta Content Library (academic/non-profit-research only — most journalists ineligible). https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/meta-content-library/ \|
21	\| ProPublica Congress API \| Retired 2024-07-10, repo archived. https://www.propublica.org/nerds/congress-api-update \| api.congress.gov (Library of Congress, free with api.data.gov key) \|
22	\| X / Twitter API free tier \| Effectively eliminated for new developers as of Feb 2026; pay-per-use only. Uncertain on exact figures (provider pricing page returned 402). Treat as paid. \| No free replacement; closest free alternatives are Bluesky Jetstream + Mastodon \|
23	\| Reddit API \| Free for research/non-commercial only since June 2023; paid for commercial use. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/ \| (Same — usable for journalism research, prohibited for monetized products) \|
24	\| Hugging Face Inference API \| Rebranded to Inference Providers (router across 20+ providers). Free users now get $0.10/month in credits, down from previous unmetered free tier for many models. https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing \| Free tier still works for low-volume / embeddings; paid for production \|
25
26	## Journalism-curated short list
27
28	All entries below verified against provider pages on 2026-05-09 unless marked uncertain. Always confirm rate limits against the provider's live developer docs before depending on them in production.
29
30	### News monitoring
31
32	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
33	\|---\|---\|---\|
34	\| [GDELT 2.0](https://gdeltproject.org/data.html) \| Fully free, no auth \| Global news + knowledge graph, updates every 15 min, BigQuery-mirrored. Strong for cross-border / longitudinal monitoring. \|
35	\| [NewsAPI](https://newsapi.org/pricing) \| 100 req/day, 24h delay, 1mo window, dev-only \| Commercial use prohibited on free tier. Not usable in shipped products. \|
36	\| [GNews](https://gnews.io/#pricing) \| 100 req/day, 30d window, 12h delay, non-commercial \| 10 articles/request cap. \|
37	\| [Mediastack](https://mediastack.com/pricing) \| 100 req/month, 30-min delay \| Functionally a demo. \|
38	\| [NYT Article Search / Top Stories](https://developer.nytimes.com/) \| Free with key, daily cap (uncertain — verify) \| Solid for archival queries. \|
39
40	### Social platforms (post-API-monetization landscape)
41
42	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
43	\|---\|---\|---\|
44	\| [Bluesky Jetstream](https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream) \| Public WebSocket firehose, no auth \| Real-time public-post stream. 4 official instances. Caveat: not formally part of AT Protocol — no long-term stability commitment. \|
45	\| [Bluesky AppView](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/rate-limits) \| Public read endpoints, 3000 req / 5min IP-based \| Auth needed for write ops. Profiles, posts, search. \|
46	\| [Mastodon](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/) \| Per-instance, OAuth, public endpoints often unauth-readable \| Federated — coverage is server-by-server. \|
47	\| [Threads (Meta)](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads) \| Free pricing not surfaced on docs page (uncertain — verify) \| Read/post/reply/search/insights/webhooks. \|
48	\| [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/) \| 100 QPM authenticated, 10 QPM unauthenticated, non-commercial only \| Adequate for OSINT/research, prohibited for monetized products. \|
49	\| [Meta Content Library](https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/meta-content-library/) \| Academic / non-profit researchers only \| Most journalists need a university partner to qualify. \|
50	\| [TikTok Research API](https://developers.tiktok.com/products/research-api/) \| Academic-affiliated researchers only \| Same eligibility gate as MCL. \|
51
52	### Government / public records (US)
53
54	\| API \| Free tier \| Notes \|
55	\|---\|---\|---\|
56	\| [api.data.gov umbrella key](https://api.data.gov/) \| One key for 25+ federal

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