aid: star-wars
name: Star Wars API
description: >
  The Star Wars REST API (SWAPI / swapi.info) is the world's first quantified
  and programmatically-accessible data source for all the data from the Star
  Wars canon universe. It provides structured JSON access to films, characters
  (people), starships, vehicles, planets, and species from the Star Wars
  universe via a simple HTTP GET API. The API requires no authentication, has
  no rate limits, and is completely free and open source. Originally created by
  Paul Hallett as swapi.co and later swapi.dev, the current maintained
  iteration at swapi.info was rebuilt by Sivaram P as a CDN-powered,
  file-based API serving over one million daily requests with sub-50ms global
  response times via Vercel and Cloudflare.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Star Wars
  - Science Fiction
  - Entertainment
  - Films
  - Characters
  - Planets
  - Starships
  - Vehicles
  - Species
  - Open Source
apis:
  - aid: star-wars:star-wars-api
    name: Star Wars REST API
    description: >
      A REST API providing GET-only access to canonical Star Wars universe data
      including films, people, planets, species, starships, and vehicles.
      Responses are JSON with hypermedia URL linking between related resources.
      No authentication is required.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://swapi.info
    baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
    tags:
      - Star Wars
      - REST
      - Films
      - People
      - Planets
      - Species
      - Starships
      - Vehicles
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://swapi.info/documentation
      - type: Playground
        url: https://swapi.info/playground
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/openapi/star-wars-openapi.json
      - type: Plans
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/plans/star-wars-plans-pricing.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/star-wars-rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/finops/star-wars-finops.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://swapi.info
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/SivaramPg/swapi.info
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.swapi.info
  - type: Playground
    url: https://swapi.info/playground
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/plans/star-wars-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/star-wars-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/finops/star-wars-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com