Swapi

Swapi: Free Open Source REST API for Star Wars Data

A free, open source REST API providing access to Star Wars data, including planets, spacecraft, vehicles, species, films, and characters, to help developers build apps and websites.

What is Swapi?

Swapi (Star Wars API) is an open source, community driven REST API that provides access to data from the Star Wars universe, spanning all movies, books, comics, and more. It was created to be a persistently available and fast API to allow developers to build apps, websites, and projects using canonical Star Wars data.

Some key details about Swapi:

• Covers data on planets, spaceships, vehicles, people, films, and species from all Star Wars canon sources
• Persistently hosted and maintained, with robust infrastructure
• RESTful interface makes requests easy from any programming language
• Fast performance and caching allows for real-time use cases
• Data is serialized to JSON for easy consumption and manipulation
• Completely open source and free to use without restrictions
• Actively maintained by a community of open source developers

Developers can access any entity by searching or traversing relationships in the API. For example, you can get data on Luke Skywalker and then follow links to get his home planet, the starships he piloted, and the films he appeared in. This makes Swapi a powerful way to access the interconnected Star Wars data.

Some popular uses of Swapi include building mobile apps, web mashups, Alexa skills, Discord bots, graphics visualizations, statistical analysis, and more. The open API sparks creativity among developers and fans alike.

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