JSONPlaceholder
Free fake REST API for testing and prototyping, returns realistic JSON data for posts, comments, users, todos, and photos without authentication.
JSONPlaceholder provides a complete REST API with realistic data for posts, comments, users, albums, photos, and todos, all served as JSON. No authentication, no rate limiting, and predictable resource relationships make it ideal for testing.
Useful for frontend developers prototyping UI with realistic data, bootcamp students building portfolio projects, and engineers writing API client tests. The predictable schema and relationships mirror real application data structures.
URL
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/Recommended tools
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