# Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis

A collection of unofficial apis. Designed to inspire your next Friday night hack

Repository: https://github.com/Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/unofficial-apis
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-05-27T18:59:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2314, "days_push": 828, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2747, forks 123 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:17.768512+00:00)

## What it is
A curated catalog of unofficial API libraries across categories like entertainment, finance, food, health, messaging, sports, and transportation. It serves as an index linking to community-maintained client libraries for services that lack official APIs.

## Use cases
- find an unofficial api for instagram scraping
- discover client libraries for services without official apis
- find apis for a weekend hackathon project
- look up unofficial twitter or social media api wrappers
- browse apis by category like finance or sports
- find libraries to automate a service that has no public api

## When to choose
- you want to browse a broad, categorized list of unofficial API libraries
- you need inspiration for a hackathon or side project
- you want community-vetted client libraries for popular services

## When to avoid
- you need a stable, officially supported API for production use
- you need guaranteed maintenance or legal compliance guarantees
- you need a single SDK rather than a directory of links

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, developer-tools
- domain: apis, developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, unofficial-apis, api-catalog, hackathon, curated-list

## Member repositories
- Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.768512+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:19:00.876728+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:17.768512+00:00, sha 6a5f7872c6e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.