Every once in a while I find myself scanning a list of public APIs to see if there is anything I can make use of. I recently came across a group of Profiling APIs which I guess are aimed at marketeers.

For example, using Agify like this (just paste into your browser):-


predicts my age as 57 years old (I'm flattered!). But if I change the spelling, I get different estimates; steven (48) and, rather surprisingly, steve (69).

It seems to me that if you get stir-crazy during the Christmas lock-down, you could make a family guessing game with just a few lines of Gambas code, packed with a huge array of names, automatically picked at random.

The other APIs in this little group are:-


and;


And here is an API list; https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!