SWAPI — Star Wars API — Free API (No Key Needed)

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Not a mockup — this is what SWAPI — Star Wars API actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 788 ms).

{
  "name": "Luke Skywalker",
  "height": "172",
  "mass": "77",
  "hair_color": "blond",
  "skin_color": "fair",
  "eye_color": "blue",
  "birth_year": "19BBY",
  "gender": "male",
  "homeworld": "https://swapi.dev/api/planets/1/",
  "films": [
    "https://swapi.dev/api/films/1/",
    "https://swapi.dev/api/films/2/",
    "https://swapi.dev/api/films/3/",
    "https://swapi.dev/api/films/6/"
  ],
  "species": [],
  "vehicles": [
    "https://swapi.dev/api/vehicles/14/",
    "https://swapi.dev/api/vehicles/30/"
  ],
  "starships": [
    "https://swapi.dev/api/starships/12/",
    "https://swapi.dev/api/starships/22/"
  ],
  "created": "2014-12-09T13:50:51.644000Z",
  "edited": "2014-12-20T21

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call SWAPI — Star Wars API — pick your weapon.

// SWAPI — Star Wars API — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# SWAPI — Star Wars API with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# SWAPI — Star Wars API from your terminal
curl "https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/"

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