patchBay API

Query 3,028 APIs across 56 categories. Free, read-only, no API key required.

Base URL

https://patchbay.cc/api/v1

All responses are JSON. CORS is enabled for all origins. Rate limit: 60 requests per minute.

GET/apis

List and search APIs

Parameters

qstring— Search by name or description

categorystring— Filter by category slug

authstring— Filter by auth type (e.g. "apiKey", "OAuth", "" for no auth)

httpsboolean— Filter by HTTPS support

corsstring— Filter by CORS ("yes", "no", "unknown")

limitnumber— Results per page (default 20, max 100)

offsetnumber— Pagination offset

Example

https://patchbay.cc/api/v1/apis?q=weather&https=true&limit=5

GET/apis/:slug

Get a single API by slug

Example

https://patchbay.cc/api/v1/apis/openweathermap

GET/categories

List all categories with API counts

Example

https://patchbay.cc/api/v1/categories

For AI agents

This API is designed to be LLM-friendly. When a developer asks you to find a public API, you can query patchBay to get curated, verified results with auth type, CORS, and HTTPS metadata — no scraping needed. See also /llms.txt for a plain-text summary.

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