Video & Streaming APIs
Free video APIs: film and TV metadata, streaming availability, video platform data, subtitles, and video hosting or transcoding services with free tiers.
26 tested APIs with full docs · 26 need no key · 60 more listed
Tested, with full documentation
We called each of these before publishing. Every page carries a working curl command, the real JSON response it returned, parameters and common errors.
AniList
Free AniList GraphQL API with no key for public data: anime, manga, characters, staff and studios with precise field selection in one query. Tested POST.
Anime News Network Encyclopedia
Anime News Network's encyclopedia API returns full anime and manga records as XML with no key: staff, cast, genres, themes, ratings and release history. Live example included.
AnimeThemes
AnimeThemes is a free, key-free API for anime opening and ending themes: series, songs, artists and hosted video and audio files, cross-linked and filterable. Live example included.
Attack on Titan API
A free Attack on Titan API with no key: 201 characters plus titans, episodes, locations and organisations, paginated with next and previous page links. Live example included.
Last Airbender API
A free Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra API with no key: characters filterable by nation, allies and enemies, plus random draws. Tested example included.
Bob's Burgers API
Free Bob's Burgers API with no key: characters, episodes, store next door gags, burger of the day and end credits with images. Tested curl example.
Cinemeta
Cinemeta is Stremio's public movie and series metadata addon: catalogues, search and full metadata keyed by IMDb id, free and without a key. Tested example included.
Dailymotion
Free Dailymotion API with no key for public data: search videos, channels and playlists with views, duration, thumbnails and embed URLs. Tested example.
Dragon Ball API
A free Dragon Ball API with no key: characters with ki and max ki levels, race, affiliation and transformations, plus planets. Spanish descriptions. Tested example included.
Final Space API
Free Final Space API with no key: characters with full biographical detail, episodes, locations and quotes from the animated series. Tested curl example included.
HP-API (Characters)
Free Harry Potter character API with no key: full character records with house, wand composition, patronus, ancestry and actor names. Filter by house. Tested example included.
An API of Ice And Fire
Free A Song of Ice and Fire API with no key: 400+ houses, 2,000+ characters and every book, cross-linked by URL with proper HTTP pagination. Tested example included.
Internet Archive Search
Search the Internet Archive's 28,000+ public domain feature films and millions of other items with a free, key-free Solr-backed API. Choose your own fields. Tested example included.
IPTV-org
Free IPTV-org API with no key: 10,000+ TV channels worldwide with countries, languages, categories, logos and stream metadata as static JSON. Tested example.
Noembed
Free oEmbed proxy API with no key: get embed HTML, thumbnails and metadata for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter and 200+ other sites from one endpoint. Tested.
API One Piece
A free One Piece API with no key: characters with bounties and crews, Devil Fruits, boats, sagas and episodes, available in several languages. Tested example included.
Owen Wilson Wow
A free API cataloguing every 'wow' Owen Wilson has said on film, with movie, year, director, exact timestamp, full line and hosted video and audio clips. Live example included.
PeerTube (SepiaSearch)
Free PeerTube search API with no key: search videos across the federated PeerTube network via SepiaSearch, with duration, channel and licence data. Tested.
Shoof Aflam
Shoof Aflam publishes a free, key-free API over 14,900+ Arabic movies and series with per-platform streaming availability, ratings and posters, as static JSON. Tested example included.
The Simpsons API
A free, key-free Simpsons API: 1,182 characters with catchphrases and occupations, plus episodes and locations, paginated with a Rick-and-Morty-style envelope. Live example included.
SponsorBlock
SponsorBlock's public API returns crowdsourced sponsor, intro and self-promo timestamps for YouTube videos, with a privacy-preserving hash-prefix lookup. Live example included.
Stream.cz GraphQL
Stream.cz exposes a public, unauthenticated GraphQL API over its Czech video catalogue: shows, episodes, search and playout data, with introspection enabled. Live example included.
Stromberg API
A free, key-free API for the German sitcom Stromberg: quotes joined to the character who said them and the episode it came from, plus full cast and episode collections.
ThronesAPI
ThronesAPI is a free, key-free API returning Game of Thrones television characters with their house, title and a hosted portrait image — a plain array, no pagination. Live example included.
TVmaze
Free TV show API with no key: series info, full episode guides, cast, air dates and daily schedules with images. Genuinely open, no signup. Tested example.
YouTube oEmbed
Free YouTube oEmbed endpoint with no API key: video title, author, thumbnail and embed HTML from any video URL. No quota, unlike the Data API. Tested.
Choosing between these Video & Streaming APIs
Most video APIs return metadata rather than media: titles, cast, ratings, artwork and streaming availability. Actual video hosting and transcoding services almost always meter their free tiers by minutes processed.
Film and TV databases are the strongest group here for building real features, though the major ones require a free API key and restrict commercial use.
More Video & Streaming APIs in the directory
60 further APIs in this category, of which 31 need no API key. These are catalogued from the public-API lists and link straight to each provider's own documentation — we have not tested them yet, so treat the auth and CORS flags as the upstream list's claim rather than ours. They are promoted to a full tested page as we work through them.
| API | What it does | Auth |
|---|---|---|
| Bob's Burgers | Bob's Burgers API | NoneCORS |
| Breaking Bad | Breaking Bad API | None |
| Breaking Bad Quotes | Some Breaking Bad quotes | None |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel | Get episode, cast and crew data from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel | NoneCORS |
| Catalogopolis | Doctor Who API | None |
| Catch The Show | REST API for next-episode.net | None |
| Compress Video API | Compress video files through an asynchronous workflow, a practical API for large-scale or long-duration videos / tasks | KeyCORS |
| Czech Television | TV programme of Czech TV | None |
| Dune | A simple API which provides you with book, character, movie and quotes JSON data | NoneCORS |
| Eurovision Song Contest | Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest API | None |
| Extract Audio from Video API | This API helps you extract audio from any video at scale | KeyCORS |
| Final Space | Final Space API | NoneCORS |
| Game of Thrones Quotes | Some Game of Thrones quotes | None |
| Gcore Streaming | Scale to 100+ million viewers and beyond. Stream everything from online games to online events reliably in minutes instead of months. | KeyCORS |
| Generate Thumbnail from video API | This API generates image thumbnails from any input video file, in the desired size (pixels). The API supports multiple video formats including MP4, WEBM, FLV, AVI, MKV, MOV and 3GP | KeyCORS |
| GIF from Video API | This API helps you generate GIF from any video | KeyCORS |
| Harry Potter Characters | Harry Potter Characters Data with with imagery | None |
| Harry Potter Charactes | Harry Potter Characters Data with with imagery | None |
| Hunt | Video To API. Get video or audio and metadata for all video platforms with one provider. | KeyCORS |
| Hyperserve | Video backend API to upload any format, transcode to MP4, and deliver via CDN | KeyCORS |
| iLoveVideoEditor | Render videos from JSON: motion templates, effects, transitions, batch rendering | Key |
| IMDb | API for receiving movie, serial and cast information | Key |
| IMDb-API | API for receiving movie, serial and cast information | Key |
| IMDbOT | Unofficial IMDb Movie / Series Information | NoneCORS |
| JSON2Video | Create and edit videos programmatically: watermarks,resizing,slideshows,voice-over,text animations | Key |
| Lucifer Quotes | Returns Lucifer quotes | None |
| MCU Countdown | A Countdown to the next MCU Film | NoneCORS |
| Motivational Quotes | Random Motivational Quotes | None |
| Movie Quote | Random Movie and Series Quotes | NoneCORS |
| Mux | Mux Video is an API that enables developers to build unique live and on-demand video experiences | Key |
| Open Movie Database | Movie information | Key |
| Rendi | FFmpeg API | Key |
| Rendobar | Serverless FFmpeg in the cloud for video and audio transcoding, trimming and conversion | Key |
| Ron Swanson Quotes | Television | None |
| Rules of Acquisition | Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek with episode references | None |
| Shotstack | Cloud video editing API to create and render videos programmatically | Key |
| Simkl | Movie, TV and Anime data | Key |
| South Park Quotes | Get some quotes from South Park, mmkay! | None |
| STAPI | Information on all things Star Trek | NoneCORS |
| Star Wars Databank | Info and data from the Star Wars databank in the form of an API | NoneCORS |
| Stranger Things Quotes | Returns Stranger Things quotes | None |
| Stream | Czech internet television, films, series and online videos for free | None |
| Stromberg Quotes | Returns Stromberg quotes and more | None |
| Supernatural Quotes | 100+ Supernatural quotes | None |
| SWAPI | All the Star Wars data you've ever wanted | NoneCORS |
| SWAPI | All things Star Wars | NoneCORS |
| SWAPI GraphQL | Star Wars GraphQL API | None |
| The Lord of the Rings | The Lord of the Rings API | Key |
| The Vampire Diaries | TV Show Data | KeyCORS |
| TMDb | Community-based movie data | Key |
| TrailerAddict | Easily embed trailers from TrailerAddict | Key |
| Trakt | Movie and TV Data | KeyCORS |
| TranscriptAPI | YouTube video transcripts as JSON with timestamps, search and playlist endpoints | Key |
| TVDB | Television data | Key |
| uNoGS | Unofficial Netflix Online Global Search, Search all netflix regions in one place | KeyCORS |
| Video Thumbnail API | Create Video Thumbnails from any video or URL | KeyCORS |
| Vimeo | Vimeo Developer API | OAuth |
| Watchmode | API for finding out the streaming availability of movies & shows | Key |
| Web Series Quotes Generator | API generates various Web Series Quote Images | NoneCORS |
| YouTube | Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps | OAuth |