Free Education & Science APIs
University directories, academic journals, and scientific datasets
Education & Science API Comparison Overview
Top EndpointsAvailable Endpoints (21)
Wikipedia API
Query Wikipedia article summaries, search pages, and rich media
Dictionary API
Free English dictionary API providing definitions, phonetics, and audio
Datamuse
Word finding query engine for synonyms, rhymes, and semantic adjectives
Open Library
Internet Archive library book catalog, covers, authors, and ISBNs
Google Books API
Search and access full metadata for millions of published books, authors, ISBNs, and reviews.
Gutendex
Project Gutenberg public domain e-book search and metadata catalog
arXiv API
Preprint scientific research repository across physics, CS, and math
Semantic Scholar
AI-powered scientific research platform providing academic papers, citations, and author graphs.
PubMed
Biomedical literature, clinical citations, and MEDLINE research articles
OpenAlex
Open catalog of global scholarly papers, authors, citations, and institutions
Open Trivia DB
Community-driven trivia and multiple-choice quiz questions database
Poetry DB
Classical poetry database with complete stanzas, sonnets, and poet bios
Bible API
Complete scripture texts, verses, and chapters across multiple language translations
Quran API
Al-Quran holy book verses, surahs, audio recitations, and multilingual translations
LanguageTool
Open-source multilingual grammar, style, and spell checking REST API supporting 30+ languages.
DeepL
State-of-the-art neural machine translation API for high-accuracy text and document translation.
Fun Translations
Fun dialect translations: Yoda, Pirate, Minion, Shakespeare, and Elvish
Merriam-Webster
Collegiate dictionary definitions, thesaurus synonyms, and word audio
College ROI API
This API provides free, keyless access to valuable data regarding the return on investment (ROI) for U.S. colleges and various majors.
Kanji Data API
This API provides JSON endpoints for accessing an extensive kanji dictionary with information on over 13,000 kanji. Users can retrieve data such as readings, meanings, and stroke counts to facilitate learning and application of kanji in various projects.
About Free Education & Science APIs
This directory curates 21 verified public APIs in the Education & Science domain. Developers can build dashboards, mobile applications, automation bots, and microservices with these ready-to-integrate endpoints without upfront billing.
Do I need an API key?
Several APIs listed here operate as Zero-Auth services where you can execute queries directly. Others provide free developer tiers with an instant key upon registration.
Does FreeAPI support CORS?
Yes, all endpoints can be called through FreeAPI Smart Edge Gateway to bypass browser CORS headers and inspect live responses.