Star Wars API

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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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