SWAPI - Star Wars API

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All Star Wars data — people, films, starships, vehicles, species, and planets. Classic beginner API. Free, no API key required.

Authentication

No authentication requiredFree to use with no key needed.

Sample Requests

GET Get all films

Get all Star Wars films.

https://swapi.dev/api/films

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://swapi.dev/api/films/"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://swapi.dev/api/films/",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://swapi.dev/api/films/';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://swapi.dev/api/films/"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://swapi.dev/api/films/")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://swapi.dev/api/films/";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

GET Get a person

Get Luke Skywalker's data.

https://swapi.dev/api/people/1

Hover any highlighted part to learn what it does

curl -X GET "https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/"

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/",
)
print(response.json())

const url = 'https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/';

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	targetURL := "https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/"
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)

<?php
$url = "https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/";
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

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No API key needed
People: GET /people/?search=darth
Films: GET /films/
Starships: GET /starships/
Planets: GET /planets/
Vehicles: GET /vehicles/

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