free-apis-catalog SKILL.md skillA
free-apis-catalog from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/free-apis-catalog@git:20260818.3e0e3a8Pins git:20260818.3e0e3a8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
research-toolkit/skills/free-apis-catalog/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260818.3e0e3a8, committed Aug 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 10, 2026
- Size
- 10,926 bytes
- Repository stars
- 450
- License
- MIT
Curated free APIs with verified free-tier limits. Use when suggesting APIs or finding free weather, news, finance, or sports data.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Free APIs catalog (journalism-curated) A short list of free APIs that work for journalism, research, and weekend projects under current free-tier conditions. The value here is curation under verified 2026 free-tier limits, not coverage. For breadth, defer to the canonical aggregator below. ## Canonical breadth reference For a near-complete inventory of free public APIs across every category (1000+ entries, actively maintained), use: - **public-apis/public-apis on GitHub**, https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Not archived, last commit verified 2026-05-09, 4,600+ commits, 6,000+ merged PRs. When you need an API outside the categories below, search there first. This skill curates the journalism-relevant subset. ## Recently sunset / changed (don't use) | API | Status | What to use instead | |---|---|---| | **IEX Cloud** | Fully retired 2024-08-31. https://iexcloud.org/ | Alpha Vantage, Tiingo IEX, Financial Modeling Prep, Polygon | | **CrowdTangle** | Sunset 2024-08-14 | Meta Content Library (academic/non-profit-research only, most journalists ineligible). https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/meta-content-library/ | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/free-apis-catalog@sha256:8efa266374ddd49eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.3e0e3a8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 10, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 100 days.
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| git:20260818.3e0e3a8 latest | 2026-08-18 | 3e0e3a8 | 10,926 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260510.f64bed9 | 2026-05-10 | f64bed9 | 11,070 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10926 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 450 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_opmkkhj2tfy7ygup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/free-apis-catalog GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8efa266374ddd49e380844e39ee3077d3aa1f310bb15fd662631815a502c8d2f
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