5 Free Developer APIs You Can Test Right Now with curl

No signup. No API key. No credit card. Just curl and go. Here are 5 free APIs that work right now from your terminal.

1. Word Counter & Text Stats

curl "http://69.62.106.38:3100/count?text=Hello+World+this+is+a+test"

Returns word count, character count, sentence count, and reading time. Perfect for content pipelines.

2. UUID Generator

curl http://69.62.106.38:3100/uuid

Instant v4 UUID. Use it in scripts, CI/CD, or quick prototyping.

3. Website Title Fetcher

curl "http://69.62.106.38:3108/title?url=https://github.com"

Fetches the <title> tag from any URL. Useful for link previews, bookmarking tools, or content scrapers.

4. DNS Lookup

curl http://69.62.106.38:3108/dns/google.com

Returns A, AAAA, MX, NS, and TXT records. Quick DNS debugging without dig.

5. HTTP Headers Inspector

curl "http://69.62.106.38:3108/headers-of?url=https://example.com"

See what headers any website returns. Check security headers, caching, redirects.

Bonus: 25 Free MCP Tools for AI Assistants

If you use Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf — connect to our free MCP server for 25 developer tools:

claude mcp add devforge --transport streamable-http http://69.62.106.38:3109/mcp

Tools include: web search, page fetching, JSON formatting, regex testing, base64 encode/decode, hash generation, JWT decode, cron expression explainer, color conversion, and more.

Want More?

TextForge API has 18 free endpoints total: text manipulation, hashing, encoding, formatting, and more.

FetchForge has web scraping endpoints with x402 micropayments (USDC on Base) — AI agents can pay per call with no API key needed.

All tools: http://69.62.106.38:3105

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