Star Wars API

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.

Star Wars API publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Films API, People API, Planets API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Star Wars, Science Fiction, Entertainment, Film, and Characters.

The Star Wars API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Star Wars API’s developer surface includes documentation and 9 more developer resources.

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26.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 56/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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Star WarsScience Fiction Entertainment Film Characters Planets Starships Species Open Source

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 26.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 11.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 0.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 4.3 — up to +19.1 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 53.4 — up to +11.7 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Star Wars API Films API

Star Wars films

Star Wars API People API

People and characters in the Star Wars universe

Star Wars API Planets API

Planets in the Star Wars universe

Star Wars API Species API

Species in the Star Wars universe

Star Wars API Starships API

Starships in the Star Wars universe

Star Wars API Vehicles API

Vehicles in the Star Wars universe

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films People API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films Planets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films Species API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films Starships API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars REST API (SWAPI) Films Vehicles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Star Wars API pricing

Not yet checked against Star Wars API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free	Free

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Star Wars API Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Star Wars API Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Star Wars API

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Star Wars API Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Star Wars Context

6 classes · 56 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Star Wars API — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Film

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Person

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Planet

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Species

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Starship

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vehicle

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Film

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Person

16 fields

EXAMPLE

Planet

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Species

15 fields

EXAMPLE

Starship

18 fields

EXAMPLE

Vehicle

16 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Star Wars API Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Star Wars API Agentic Access

12 operations

12 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground

Playground

Source (apis.yml)

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.

  '
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/star-wars.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/star-wars/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Star Wars
- Science Fiction
- Entertainment
- Film
- Characters
- Planets
- Starships
- Species
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Star Wars
- Science Fiction
- Entertainment
- Films
- Characters
- Planets
- Starships
- Species
- Open Source
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-films-api
  name: Star Wars API Films API
  description: Star Wars films
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - Film
  tags_raw:
  - Films
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-films-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-people-api
  name: Star Wars API People API
  description: People and characters in the Star Wars universe
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - People
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-people-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-planets-api
  name: Star Wars API Planets API
  description: Planets in the Star Wars universe
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - Planets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-planets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-species-api
  name: Star Wars API Species API
  description: Species in the Star Wars universe
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - Species
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-species-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-starships-api
  name: Star Wars API Starships API
  description: Starships in the Star Wars universe
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - Starships
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-starships-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
- aid: star-wars:star-wars-vehicles-api
  name: Star Wars API Vehicles API
  description: Vehicles in the Star Wars universe
  humanURL: https://swapi.info
  baseURL: https://swapi.info/api
  tags:
  - Vehicles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/star-wars-vehicles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://swapi.info/documentation
  - 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
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/star-wars-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/star-wars-domain-security.yml
- 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
x-tags-removed:
- Vehicles

Star Wars API — frequently asked questions

Does Star Wars API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Star Wars API, including Star Wars API Films API, Star Wars API People API and Star Wars API Planets API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Star Wars API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Star Wars API, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Star Wars API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Star Wars API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Star Wars API ready for AI agents?

Star Wars API has a Kin Score of 26.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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