Community-maintained RESTful and GraphQL API exposing a database of 9,820+ Disney characters and the films, short films, TV shows, video games, and park attractions they appear in. The project (BSD-3-Clause) is developed in the open by Manu Castrillon at https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api and documented at https://disneyapi.dev. The REST surface is unauthenticated and read-only. Disney and Disney characters are trademarks of The Walt Disney Company; this project is community fan-content and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Disney.
Disney API publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Characters API, Index API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Entertainment, Characters, Disney, Open Source, and Fan API.
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Disney API’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, code examples, and 26 more developer resources.
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GraphQL Disney character API hosted at /graphql. Single root field `characters(page, pageSize, filter)` returns a `CharacterPage` with `items` and `paginationInfo`. The `Charact...
GraphQL Disney character API hosted at /graphql. Single root field `characters(page, pageSize, filter)` returns a `CharacterPage` with `items` and `paginationInfo`. The `Charact...
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license: BSD-3-Clause
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repo: manucastrillonm/disney-api
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stars: 69
open_source: true
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
confidence: medium
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- pricing
- repository-license
generated: '2026-09-25'
method: derived
accessModel:
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onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/disney.png
name: Disney API
description: Community-maintained RESTful and GraphQL API exposing a database of 9,820+ Disney characters and the films, short
films, TV shows, video games, and park attractions they appear in. The project (BSD-3-Clause) is developed in the open by
Manu Castrillon at https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api and documented at https://disneyapi.dev. The REST surface
is unauthenticated and read-only. Disney and Disney characters are trademarks of The Walt Disney Company; this project is
community fan-content and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Disney.
url: https://disneyapi.dev
baseURL: https://api.disneyapi.dev
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-29'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-source: manual-create
x-type: opensource
x-category: Entertainment
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: community-fan-api-disney-character-db
tags:
- Entertainment
- Characters
- Disney
- Open Source
- Fan API
- REST
- GraphQL
tags_raw:
- Entertainment
- Characters
- Disney
- Open Source
- Fan API
- REST
- GraphQL
- Open-Source
apis:
- name: Disney API (GraphQL)
description: GraphQL Disney character API hosted at /graphql. Single root field `characters(page, pageSize, filter)` returns
a `CharacterPage` with `items` and `paginationInfo`. The `CharacterFilterInput` accepts id, name, films, shortFilms, tvShows,
videoGames, alignment, parkAttractions, allies, and enemies as substring filters. Schema is derived directly from the
published source.
humanURL: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
baseURL: https://api.disneyapi.dev/graphql
tags:
- Characters
- GraphQL
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api/blob/main/src/graphql/typeDefs.js
- type: Authentication
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
title: No authentication required
- url: graphql/disney-graphql.md
type: GraphQL
- aid: disney:disney-characters-api
name: Disney API Characters API
description: Endpoints that list, retrieve, and filter Disney characters.
humanURL: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
baseURL: https://api.disneyapi.dev
tags:
- Characters
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/disney-characters-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api
- type: Authentication
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- aid: disney:disney-index-api
name: Disney API Index API
description: Service discovery endpoint that enumerates available REST routes.
humanURL: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
baseURL: https://api.disneyapi.dev
tags:
- Index
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/disney-index-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api
- type: Authentication
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
common:
- type: IssueTracker
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api/issues
- type: CodeOfConduct
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/disney-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/disney-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://disneyapi.dev
- type: Documentation
url: https://disneyapi.dev/docs/
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api
title: Disney API (RESTful and GraphQL server)
- type: SourceCode
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disneyapi.dev
title: disneyapi.dev documentation site (Gatsby)
- type: License
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api/blob/main/LICENSE
title: BSD-3-Clause
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.disneyapi.dev/
- type: Signup
url: https://disneyapi.dev/support-us/
title: Support Us (donations to underwrite hosting)
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disneyapi.dev
- type: SpectralRules
url: rules/disney-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/disney-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/disney-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/disney-character-schema.json
title: Character
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/disney-character-page-schema.json
title: CharacterPage
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/disney-page-info-schema.json
title: PageInfo
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/disney-service-index-schema.json
title: ServiceIndex
- type: JSONStructure
url: json-structure/disney-character-structure.json
title: Character
- type: JSONStructure
url: json-structure/disney-character-page-structure.json
title: CharacterPage
- type: JSONStructure
url: json-structure/disney-page-info-structure.json
title: PageInfo
- type: JSONStructure
url: json-structure/disney-service-index-structure.json
title: ServiceIndex
- type: Examples
url: examples/disney-character-example.json
title: Character Example
- type: Examples
url: examples/disney-character-page-example.json
title: CharacterPage Example
- type: Examples
url: examples/disney-service-index-example.json
title: ServiceIndex Example
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/disney-rate-limits.yml
features:
- name: 9,820+ Disney Characters
description: Database of nearly ten thousand Disney character records harvested from the Disney Fandom Wiki.
- name: Rich Cross-Reference Fields
description: Each character lists their films, shortFilms, tvShows, videoGames, parkAttractions, allies, and enemies as
named string arrays.
- name: Substring Filtering On Every Field
description: Every character field can be filtered by case-insensitive substring through query parameters, enabling targeted
lookups (e.g., all characters in a specific film).
- name: Page-Based Pagination
description: Standard `page` + `pageSize` pagination with previousPage and nextPage URLs returned inline in the `info` envelope.
- name: REST And GraphQL
description: The same backing data is exposed both as a REST API and as a GraphQL endpoint at /graphql.
- name: No Authentication
description: All endpoints are publicly accessible — no API key, OAuth, or signup is required.
- name: Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
description: Server source is available at github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disney-api and documentation source at github.com/ManuCastrillonM/disneyapi.dev.
- name: Service Index At Root
description: A `GET /` discovery endpoint enumerates the available REST routes as a JSON map.
useCases:
- name: Disney Fan Apps And Character Browsers
description: Powers casual fan apps that let users browse, search, and bookmark Disney characters and their appearances.
- name: Trivia And Quiz Games
description: Provides ground truth for Disney trivia games (which films features which character, who are X's allies, etc.).
- name: Bot And Chatbot Integrations
description: Plain JSON payloads are easily injected into Discord, Slack, and Twitter bots that respond to Disney character
lookups.
- name: Frontend Tutorial Fixture
description: Richer than typical Hello-World APIs, useful for teaching pagination, filtering, and image rendering in React/Vue/Svelte
tutorials.
- name: Data Exploration And Visualization
description: The cross-reference arrays (films / TV / games / attractions / allies / enemies) make the dataset a natural
fit for graph and network-visualization demos.
- name: API Profiling And Mocking Demos
description: A small but realistic public API surface that is commonly used to demonstrate OpenAPI generation, Spectral
linting, and Microcks mocking.
integrations:
- name: Disney Fandom Wiki
description: Source of truth — character names, films, TV shows, images, and source URLs are harvested from disney.fandom.com.
- name: Heroku
description: Historical hosting platform for the API and MongoDB instance (per upstream README and Procfile).
- name: MongoDB
description: Backing data store; characters are modeled as Mongoose documents with mongoose-sequence numeric ids.
- name: GitHub
description: Source of truth for the BSD-3-Clause licensed implementation, contributors, releases, and Gatsby documentation
site.
- name: Cloudflare (Disney Parks MCP)
description: A related (but unaffiliated) Disney Parks MCP server (`cameronsjo/mouse-mcp`) exposes Disney parks attractions
and dining data; not the same API as disneyapi.dev but a sibling Disney data source useful for agent workflows.
solutions:
- name: Public Disney Character Reference
description: A donation-funded, community-maintained reference dataset for Disney characters that fills the absence of any
official Disney developer API.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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