10 Free APIs for Data Extraction — No Authentication Required

Not every data extraction project needs Playwright or Puppeteer. Many websites and platforms expose free, public APIs that return structured JSON — no authentication needed. Here are 10 free APIs I use daily, wrapped into ready-to-use tools on Apify. 1. Reddit JSON API Append .json to any Reddit URL. Returns posts, comments, scores. https://reddit.com/r/startups.json Tool: Reddit Scraper 2. Google News RSS Search any topic, get latest articles with sources and dates. https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=artificial+intelligence Tool: Google News Scraper 3. YouTube Innertube API Comments, captions, search results — no API key, no quotas. Tool: YouTube Comments Scraper 4. Hacker News APIs Firebase real-time API + Algolia full-text search. https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=web+scraping Tool: HN Scraper 5. Bluesky AT Protocol Full REST API for profiles, posts, followers. Decentralized and open. Tool: Bluesky Scraper 6. Wikipedia API Article content, summaries, search. https://en.wi