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Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

You Don't Need LangChain — Build an AI Agent in 50 Lines of Python

I see this pattern everywhere: Developer wants to build an AI agent Developer installs LangChain...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

OpenAlex Has a Free API — Search 250M+ Research Papers (No API Key Needed)

Google Scholar doesn't have an API. Semantic Scholar has rate limits. Web of Science costs...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

crt.sh Has a Free API — Find Every SSL Certificate for Any Domain (With Python)

Want to find every subdomain of any website? There's a trick most developers don't know. Every time...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Replaced 200 Lines of CSS Selectors With 3 Lines of AI — Here's the Code

Last month I was scraping product data from 15 different e-commerce sites. Every site had different...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

NASA Has 5 Free APIs — Track Asteroids, Mars Photos & Space Weather (No Auth Required)

Last month, a friend texted me: "Hey, there's an asteroid heading toward Earth today — should I...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

5 Free Security APIs Every Developer Should Know (With Python Code)

Most security tools cost $200+/month. But you can build a surprisingly powerful security toolkit...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

There's a Free WHOIS API — Look Up Any Domain's Registration Data Programmatically

I was researching a suspicious email. The sender's domain was registered 3 days ago. That's a red...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

The Wayback Machine Has a Free API — Check How Any Website Looked 10 Years Ago

A client once asked me to prove that a competitor copied their landing page design. I needed to show...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Libraries.io API: Track Every Open Source Package Across 40+ Platforms (Free, No Key)

npm has 2.3M packages. PyPI has 500K. Maven has 500K. How do you track dependencies across ALL of...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Hacker News Has a Free API — Track Tech Trends Before They Go Mainstream

Every major tech trend — from the AI boom to the layoff wave — shows up on Hacker News days before...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Built a Python Supply Chain Risk Scanner Using Only Free APIs

Last year, a malicious package on PyPI stole AWS credentials from thousands of developers. The...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

GitHub API: Analyze Any Developer Portfolio in 30 Lines of Python (No Auth Required)

A recruiter friend told me she spends 20 minutes per candidate checking their GitHub. She clicks...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Crossref API: Search 150M+ Academic Papers for Free (No API Key Needed)

The Problem: Academic Research Data Is Locked Behind Paywalls Last month, a data scientist...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

npm Has a Free Security Advisory API — Find Vulnerable Packages Before They Break Your App

Last month, a popular npm package with 10M+ weekly downloads got compromised. Teams scrambled to...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

OpenAlex API: Search 250M+ Research Papers for Free (No API Key Needed)

Most researchers pay for Scopus ($10,000+/year) or Web of Science ($50,000+/year) to search academic...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

PyPI Has a Secret JSON API — Analyze Any Python Package Without Installing It

PyPI — the Python Package Index — has a free JSON API that nobody talks about. You can look up any...

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Built a Price Monitoring System in 30 Minutes — Here's the Stack (All Free APIs)

A step-by-step story of building a competitive price tracker using free public APIs. No paid tools, no subscriptions.

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Crossref API: Search 130M+ Research Papers Programmatically (No Key)

Most developers know Google Scholar for finding papers. But Google Scholar has no public API and...