Top 50 Best APIs

The Top 50 Most Popular APIs

By Team RapidAPI // August 21, 2024

Updated January 2023

If you’re in the API development or software development space and are searching for the most popular and widely used APIs (application programming interfaces), or are looking for the APIs to integrate one of the best APIs into your website, software application, or mobile app, you’ve come to the right place.

With over 14 thousand public APIs, and 400 billion API calls per month on the Rapid API Hub, we analyzed the data to see which were the most popular APIs by API requests in 2022. Rapid has got you covered with a validation list of the top 50 APIs.

What are the top API categories?

Due to the rise and continued emergence of social platforms, it’s no surprise that social came in at number 1 for 2022, with data following at number 2 and sports rounding out the top 3 (sports was a top 3 category in 2021 as well). For the full list, check out the most popular APIs by category.

What are the most popular and top used APIs?

Out of the 14,000+ APIs on the Rapid API Marketplace, the following are the ones that have the highest number of API calls. Click on “Connect to API” to view the interactive API documentation; see the API description, test the API endpoints, learn about the API design, and view the API pricing.

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Here were the most popular API integrations for 2022:

1. TokApi – mobile version

Category: Social

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Starting with the top API, TokApi – mobile version .

With the explosive growth and popularity of TikTok, it’s no surprise TokApi – mobile version, a TikTok mobile API, is the most popular among developers.

What is TokApi – mobile version?

TokApi – mobile version is a TikTok mobile API that allows developers to search with ease.

Endpoints:

Trending – view all trending categories and feed recommendations
Hashtag ID – search posts and videos by Hashtag IDs
Music ID – search music information and videos by music ID
Video – get video feeds, search videos by web URL or video ID, and retrieve comments by video ID
Search – text query search capabilities for video, hashtags, users, and music
Effects – retrieve effects information
User – retrieve user playlists, videos, information, usernames, QR codes, followers, and following lists

Related: List of Tiktok APIs

2. Google Search

Category: Data

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Google Search provides powerful search results in real time. The API retrieves data from both Google web and image search.

Endpoints:

Web search – support for web searches
Image search – search support for images

3. Deezer

Category: Music

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The Deezer API gives developers access to Deezer’s massive music database of over 30 million tracks and playlists.

Endpoints:

Search
Album
Comment
Genre
Artist
Editorial
Playlist
Track
Radio
Infos – retrieve for the current country

Related: Collection of best music and audio APIs

4. API-FOOTBALL

Category: Sports

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API-Football is the most popular RESTful API for football (soccer) data. It covers over 960 football leagues and cups, and provides live scores, pre-match odds, events, line-ups, standings, stats, and much more.

Endpoints:

Timezone – get a list of available timezones to be used in the fixtures endpoint
Predictions – made using the poisson distribution, comparison of team statistics, last matches, players, etc.
Fixtures – retrieve a list of available fixtures according to the parameters
Teams – get a list of all available teams
Countries & Seasons – view a list of available countries and seasons
Leagues – retrieve a list of all available leagues and cups
Odds – taken from fixtures, leagues, or date
Events – retrieve the events from a fixture
Standings – see the standings for a league or a team
Statistics – view the statistics from one fixture
Players – get player statistics
Lineups – see the lineups for a fixture
Trophies – view all the trophies given to a player or a coach
Odds – returns in-play odds for fixtures in progress
Sidelined – see all sidelined players and coaches
Transfers – retrieve all available transfers of players and teams
Search – search by team, country, league, player, coach, venue, bet, or bookmaker
Top Scorers – see the 20 best players for a league or a cup
Venues – view a list of all available venues
Injuries – retrieve a list of all unavailable players due to illness, suspension, or injuries
Coaches – get information for coaches, including their career history

Related: Top Football (Soccer) APIs

5. ScrapTik

Category: Social

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ScrapTik is a social API that allows developers to scrape data from the TikTok mobile app. The API is used as a gateway for fetching trending videos, users, music, and more with 100% uptime for a great user experience.

Endpoints:

Scraping API – scrape data directly from the TikTok mobile app (IE; users, posts, hashtags, music, etc.)
Scraping API (Web API) – get user info and posts
Login API – login or send a code using SMS text, and check if unique ID exists
Stories API – view user stories
Notifications API – show all account notifications (IE; activity, followers, mentions, tags, likes, etc.)
Livestream API – start, create, get, and end a livestream
Services – additional tools for developers like x-argus, x-ladon, x-gorgon, and device registration

6. Tiktok video no watermark

Category: Social

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Another TikTok API coming in on the top 10; the Tiktok video no watermark API allows developers to download Tiktok videos without watermarks, so they can be posted to other social platforms.

Endpoints:

User Related API
Music Related API
Feed Related API
Comment Related API
Challenge (Hashtag)
Service API – including Tiktok Mobile endpoint signing (X-Argus, X-Ladon, X-Gorgon, X-Khronos), device registration, TTencryption, XLog encryption, and decryption

7. Rapid Translate Multi Traduction

Category: Text Analysis

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The Rapid Translate Multi Traduction API translates html, text, words, phrases, and paragraphs in real time across more than 100 languages. This can improve response times and service quality by translating multiple texts in one fast query.

8. Youtube v3

Category: Social

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Another hot social API, the Youtube v3 API, provides Youtube data without having a Youtube data api key.

Endpoints:

Captions List
Search
Video Comments
Video Details
Channel Details
Channel Videos
Suggested Videos
Playlist Videos
Playlist Details

Related: List of Youtube APIs

9. OpenAPI 1.2

Category: Location

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The TransLoc OpenAPI is a public RESTful API that allows developers to access real time vehicle tracking information and incorporate this data into their website or mobile application.

Endpoints:

Agencies
Arrival Estimates
Routes
Segments
Vehicles
Stops

Related: Top Geocoding and Location APIs

10. TikTok All in One

Category: Social

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To round out the top 10 most popular APIs, is TikTok All in One. The API provides info and allows developers to search TikTok videos, music, hashtags (challenges), users, video comments, and live feeds.

Endpoints:

Feed (Trending)
Discover
Video info
Search
User
Music
Hashtag (Challenge)

11. BetsAPI

Category: Sports

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BetsAPI provides both in-play and pre-match sports data feeds and sports betting scores and odds for soccer, football, volleyball, cricket, and more.

Endpoints:

Bet365 Inplay Filter
Bet365 InPlay
Bet365 InPlay Event
Bet365 Upcoming Events
Bet365 PreMatch Odds
Bet365 Result

Related: Sports Odds and Sports Betting APIs

12. Tiktok Download Without Watermark

Category: Social

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If you’re repurposing your Tiktok content for other social media platforms, it’s best to remove the Tiktok watermark as these other platforms demote Tiktok reels. The Tiktok Download Without Watermark API provides the fastest way to download videos without watermark directly from tiktok.

13. SportScore

Category: Sports

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The SportScore API provides detailed data on standings, players, teams, coaches, lineups, stadiums, odds and odds-history, match locations, video goals and highlights. The API also provides real time data for live-score and game incidents (substitutions, corners, cards, etc).

Endpoints:

Sports
Sections
Leagues
Challenges
Seasons
Teams
Events
Players
Referees
Managers
Medias
Tennis Rankings
Meta
Venues

14. Imgur

Category: Entertainment

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Using the Imgur API, programmers can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice. The Imgur API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface.

Endpoints:

Account
Comment
Gallery
Album
Image
Notification
Custom Gallery
Conversation
Memegen

15. Youtube Search and Download

Category: Social

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The Youtube Search and Download API does exactly what it says. Search for information about channel, playlist, video, and trends in Youtube.

Endpoints:

About channel
Channel
Video related
Video comments
Trending
Video info
Playlist
Search videos/channels/playlists

16. Pinnacle Odds

Category: Sports

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The Pinnacle Odds API is a RESTful service for getting pre-match and live odds. Sports include soccer, tennis, basketball, hockey, football, MMA, and baseball.

Endpoints:

List of special markets
List of sports
List of leagues
Betting status
List of markets
List of archive events
List of periods
Event details

17. Telize

Category: Location

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Telize is a REST API that allows developers to query location information from any IP address and retrieve visitor’s IP addresses.

Endpoints:

Legacy – GeoIP – get visitor IP address location in JSON format
JSON IP – provides the visitor IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) in a JSON object
IP – retrieves the visitor IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) in plain text, useful for shell scripts or to find the external Internet routable address
Location – get visitor IP address location also in JSON format
Location with specific IP – shows a specific IP address location in JSON format

18. Instagram

Category: Social

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The Instagram API allows developers to get basic instagram user and media info.

Related: List of Top Instagram APIs

19. webcams.travel

Category: Travel

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The webcams.travel API gathers webcams from around the world and makes them accessible to any developers via API. Using the API, developers can enrich their website or app with free webcam content from over 69,687 webcams around the world.

Endpoints:

webcams/list
webcams/map

Related: Travel APIs

20. Twitter

Category: Social

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The Twitter API allows developers to search users, followers, images, tweets, media, and more.

Endpoints:

Explore – Auto Complete, Search
Tweet – Tweet Detail & Conversation, Tweet Favorites, Tweet Retweeters
User – by Screen Name, Rest ID, Rest IDs, User Tweets, User Tweets & Replies, User Media, User Likes, User Following, User Followers

Related: Top Twitter and Twitter-related APIs

21. COVID-19

Category: Health & Fitness

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The Covid-19 API allows developers to follow the progress of the coronavirus around the world. This free API gives statistics for all countries on COVID-19.

Endpoints:

Countries
Statistics
History

Related: Coronavirus COVID-19 APIs

22. JoJ Unlimited Web Search

Category: Search

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This web search API searches the world’s information, including webpages, related keywords, and more.

23. Aka

Category: Other

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Endpoints:

V2
V1.75
Pixel

24. Instagram Bulk Profile Scrapper

Category: Social

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As its name suggests, this API is designed specifically to scrap Instagram profiles in bulk/high volume.

Endpoints:

Profile
Hashtag
Post – Instagram feeds endpoints
Story
Reels – also known as Clips
Followers – fetched by username
Following – Instagram following list
Music – Instagram music API
Locations – get Instagram posts by location

Related: List of Top Instagram APIs

25. Instrgram Scraper

Category: Social

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Instagram Scraper API allows developers to get information they need from instagram.

Endpoints:

Medias_v2
Medias
userInfo
LocationMedias
HashTagMediasV2
SearchFollowing
SearchFollowers
Stories
HashTagMedias
Following
Followers
MediaLikers
MediaComments
MediaInfo
DetailUserInfo

26. MapTiles

Category: Mapping

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With the MapTiles API, developers can display a planet-covering map on 20 zoom levels. Choose between English, French or Spanish labeled raster map tiles to provide the best usability for your target audience.

Endpoints:

getMapTilewithSpanishLabels
getMapTilewithEnglishLabels
getMapTilewithFrenchLabels
getStandardMapTile

Related: List of Mapping APIs

27. BraveNewCoin

Category: Finance

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BraveNewCoin (BNC) has been providing data, indexes, analysis, and insight on the cryptographic asset marketplace since April 2014 through its website and API’s. The institutional grade V3 platform is the latest iteration of its systems.

Endpoints:

DailyOHLCV
GetToken
AssetTicker
Lookups

Related: The Brave New Coin API Collection

28. SendGrid

Category: Email

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The SendGrid API is RESTful, fully featured, and easy to integrate with. SendGrid delivers transactional and marketing emails through the world’s largest cloud-based email delivery platform.

Endpoints:

Update an alert
Retrieve all alerts
Mail
Blocks
Bounces
Invalid Emails
Spam Reports
Cancel Schedules Sends
Unsubscribe Groups
Suppressions (Unsubscribe)
Settings – Tracking
Settings – Mail
Settings – Mail
Settings – Inbound Parse
Account Stats

29. IP Geolocation

Category: Mapping

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As the name suggests, the IP Geolocation API gives detailed information about the IP location of visitors. The API returns location data such as country, city, latitude, longitude, timezone, asn, currency, and security data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in JSON or XML formats.

Endpoints:

Visitor Lookup – returns the IP address with all the location data
IP Lookup – provides geo information for the given IP

Related: Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs (in 2022)

30. Instagram Scraper 2022

Category: Social

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With an uptime of 97.85%, and a 100% response smart request filtering, Instagram Scraper 2022 allows developers to retrieve a lot of information from Instagram consistently and quickly.

Endpoints:

User
Media Info and Download
Other
Not for use

31. Text Analysis

Category: Text Analysis

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The Text Analysis API streamlines the data mining process for developers and businesses so that they can quickly classify data from a variety of sources. The Text Analysis API performs various tasks such as summarization, language detection, sentiment analysis, article extraction, named entity recognition, and extract text from various documents, images, and audio files.

Endpoints:

Article-extraction – extract data from news sources like title, text, summary, keywords, authors, main image, all images, and links
Extract-text-from-files – Extract text from file formats such as csv, doc, docx, eml, epub, json, html, htm, msg, odt, pdf, pptx, ps, rtf, txt, xls, xlsx, gif, jpg, jpeg, png, tiff, tif, mp3, ogg, and wav
Language-detection – helps discover what languages are present in your text
Named-entity-recognition – locates and classifies named entities mentioned in unstructured text into predefined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, and percentages
Sentiment-analysis – used to systematically identify and extract subjective information, it is widely used in movie reviews and survey responses
Summarize-text – used to summarize a long-form piece of written content or text
Website-extraction – extracts content from generic websites

Related: Top Text Analysis APIs

32. Translo

Category: Translation

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The Translo API is like Google Translate on steroids and is 3x more accurate.

Endpoints:

Translate – translate text and keeps emoji and html safe and sound
Batch_translate – translate groups in a fixed order
Detect – detects the language of text

33. Shazam Core

Category: Music

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Shazam is a mobile app that recognizes the music and TV playing nearby by creating a unique digital fingerprint to match with one of the millions of songs in the Shazam database. Developers use the Shazam Core API to define the song by uploading the file.

Endpoints:

Search – multi search and search suggest
Artists – artist details
Tracks – similarities, details, recognize, totals, track YouTube video, and related
Charts – world charts by genre, country, and cities
Events – events details and lists

Related: Collection of Best Music and Audio APIs

34. NLP Translation

Category: Translation

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NLP Translation is a high quality neural machine translation (NMT) that utilizes over 110 languages.

Endpoints:

Translate – translate Text or HTML
JSON Data Translate – translate values inside JSON formatted string with protected key and word capabilities

Related: Top 7 NLP (Natural Language Processing) APIs

35. Article Data Extraction and Text Mining

Category:Media

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The Article Data Extraction and Text Mining API by Ujeebu allows developers to extract meaningful data such as clean text from HTML regardless of the language used.

Endpoints:

/v1.1/extract – article extraction endpoint
/v1.1/card – extract a preview of an article (or article card). Faster than the Extract endpoint, it doesn’t do any in-depth analysis of the article content, instead, it mostly relies on its meta tags.

36. TikTok best experience

Category: Social

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The TikTok Best Experience API is a TikTok intelligent proxy that allows developers to get data with 99.99% uptime.

Endpoints:

User’s data – retrieve by user ID or username
Video – get by ID or URL
Music – retrieve music feed and data by ID
Hashtag (Challenge) – get Hashtag’s data and feed by ID and name
Comments – retrieve comments by video ID
Trending – see trending videos by region and all trending videos
Search – search hashtag and users by query
Followers – retrieve following and followers by user ID

37. Instagram Downloaded

Category: Social

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The Instagram Downloaded API allows developers to pretty much download any type of Instagram media. Reels, IGTV, videos, photos, stories, carousel, and profile pictures.

38. ScrapeNinja

Category: Data

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ScrapeNinja is a high performance API for web scraping, the process of using bots to extract content and data from a website. The API emulates Chrome TLS fingerprint, backed by rotating proxies and smart retries. Developers use this when node.js/curl/python fails to load the website but they still need fast scraping and want to avoid using Puppeteer and JS evaluation (ScrapeNinja returns raw HTTP responses by default). Javascript rendering is available as well.

Endpoints:

/scrape – scrape via POST method
/scrape-js – launches a real Chrome browser engine, used only when /scrape endpoint features are not enough
/scrape (legacy) – scrape via GET method; not recommended for production

39. OpenSea

Category: Data

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The OpenSea API easily pulls in data on your NFT items. Search NFTs, collections, users, and more.

Endpoints:

V1.0 (stable):
Assets
Collections
Bundles
Single Asset
Asset Owners
Listings for an Asset
Offers for an Asset
Single Contract
Single collection
Collection stats
V2.0:
Seaport Listings
Seaport Offers

40. seo api

Category: Data

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Use the Serply seo api to scrape search engine results with unlimited web searches. Retrieve links, descriptions, and titles. Monitor news, job boards, social media, scholarly literature, competitors, and more. In addition, all results can also be filtered by country and language.

Endpoints:

Search engines – search, news, images, video, SERP, crawl, and scholar
Products API – search for product rankings
Status – “status” == true then API is up

41. Temp Mail

Category: Tools

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The Temp Mail API is a disposable temporary email service that helps developers avoid spam by self-destructing after a certain period of time. Other names include tempmail, 10minutemail, throwaway email, fake-mail, or trash-mail.

Endpoints:

Delete message
Domains list
Get emails
Get message attachments
Get one message
Source message

Related: How to create a disposable email address

42. YouTube MP3

Category: Social

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The YouTube MP3 API does exactly what it says. It converts any YouTube video link into a downloadable MP3 link. The endpoints allow developers to do this for single or multiple videos.

The YouTube MP3 API has one endpoint, Get MP3 – Convert Youtube Videos to MP3.

43. Social Media Data TT

Category: Social

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The Social Media Data TT API allows developers to retrieve useful and unique information in real time. Extract user and hashtag metadata, video feed metadata from a user, hashtag, trending and music pages (video posts with statistics), and extract user followers.

Endpoints:

Hashtag
Post
Music
User
Trends

44. Free Geo IP

Category: Commerce

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FreeGeoIP.app provides a reliable and scalable IP geolocation API for developers. It uses a database of IP addresses associated with cities and other relevant information like time zone, latitude, and longitude.

Endpoints:

XML
JSON
CSV

45. ReCaptcha Solver

Category: Tools

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Solve reCAPTCHA v2 & reCAPTCHA v3 automatically and get the g_recaptcha_response for all scrapping and captcha-solving needs.

Endpoints:

ReCaptcha v2 create_task
ReCaptcha v3 create_task
Get ReCaptcha Result

46. YH Finance Complete

Category: Finance

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The YH Finance Complete API helps developers query stocks, quotes, movers, and other financial summaries.

Endpoints:

Currency Convertor
YH Historical
Stock Snapshot
Simple Stock Price

Related: Best Stock Market and Brokerage APIs

47. Yahoo Finance

Category: Finance

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The Yahoo Finance API provides financial news for stocks, options, ETFs, and mutual funds and data, as well as online tools for personal finance management. It’s one of the more popular media properties for financial stock data.

Endpoints:

Get Summary – get real time live market summaries in a specific region
Get Movers – retrieves the day’s gainers, losers, and activations within a given region
Get Quotes – returns all relevant information for a specific stock quote or groups of stock quotes specified by symbol.
Get Charts – returns data that allows you to visualize a chart for a specific symbol and comparisons, Data includes trading periods, timestamps, comparisons, and more.

48. Lingvanex Translate

Category: Translation

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The Lingvanex Translate API provides clear and fast translation. Developers can use the API for business or research.

The Lingvanex Translate API has one endpoint, Translate – /getLanguages and /translate.

49. Blockchain HTTP RPC

Category: Data

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Blockchain HTTP RPC offers managed web3 backend and blockchain infrastructure as a service (IAAS) with best in class elasticity, scalability, and flexible subscription options. Supports JSON-RPC over HTTPS.

Currently supports the following blockchains networks (full node):

Ethereum/mainnet
Ethereum/goerli
Polygon/mainnet
Polygon/mumbai-testnet
Binance Smart Chain/mainnet
Binance Smart Chain/testnet
Solana/mainnet
Solana/devnet

50. Botometer Pro

Category: Social

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The Botometer Pro API examines Twitter accounts for possible automated activity. The API checks the activity of an account and gives it a score based on the extent to which it matches accounts that use automation—a higher score indicates activities that are more bot-like.

Endpoints:

Check accounts in bulk
Check account v4

Summary

And that’s a wrap of Rapid’s top 50 most popular APIs for 2023! This post was updated in January 2023.

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