About APILayer
APILayer is a hub of ready-to-use web APIs for developers and businesses. Instead of signing up with a separate provider for each data source, a team creates one account and uses a single API key across the catalog. The homepage describes more than 40 production-ready APIs covering finance, geolocation, weather, files and other data.
The catalog is made up of named products. Examples shown on the site include IPstack for IP geolocation, Marketstack for stock market data, Aviationstack for flight data, Serpstack for search engine results, Coinlayer for crypto rates, Weatherstack for weather, Pdflayer for PDF generation, Screenshotlayer for website screenshots, Mediastack for news, Numverify for phone number validation and Userstack for user agent parsing.
APILayer is a hosted commercial service aimed at developers who want to add data lookups to apps, dashboards or internal tools quickly. Sign-up is free and does not require a card, and the vendor offers documentation, community channels and enterprise options for larger needs.
Key features
- One account and API key for the whole catalog
- IP geolocation lookups
- Stock market and crypto rate data
- Weather, flight and news data APIs
- PDF generation and website screenshot APIs
- Phone number validation API
Good fit for
- →Adding geolocation to a web app
- →Feeding market data into dashboards
- →Validating phone numbers at sign-up
- Tags
- api-marketplace
- geolocation
- currency-api
- market-data
- weather-api
- developer-tools
- saas
APILayer: questions and answers
- What is APILayer used for?
- APILayer is an API marketplace that bundles dozens of ready-made data APIs, such as IP geolocation, currency, stock and weather data, behind one account and a single API key. It is a good fit for adding geolocation to a web app, feeding market data into dashboards and validating phone numbers at sign-up.
- Is APILayer free?
- Yes. APILayer has a free plan.
- Is APILayer open source?
- No. APILayer is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the API Tools category, open-source options include Hoppscotch, Insomnia and Scalar.
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