SWAPI - Star Wars API

aid: swapi
name: SWAPI - Star Wars API
description: >-
  SWAPI (Star Wars API) is a free, open Star Wars REST API exposing canonical Star Wars
  data — films, people, planets, species, starships, and vehicles. Originally built by
  Paul Hallett (@phalt) at swapi.co, it is now maintained as community mirrors at
  swapi.dev (Python/Django, @juriy) and www.swapi.tech (Node/MongoDB, @semperry).
  SWAPI is one of the most widely cited "teaching APIs" in the developer ecosystem.
url: https://swapi.dev/
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2014472?s=200
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Video
x-tier: 2
x-tier-reason: enriched-during-pipeline-run
x-type: opensource
tags:
  - Star Wars
  - Open Source
  - Teaching API
  - Public API
  - REST
  - GraphQL
  - Entertainment
  - Datasets
apis:
  - name: SWAPI REST API (swapi.dev)
    description: >-
      The primary live REST mirror of SWAPI, maintained by @juriy at swapi.dev. Preserves
      the canonical SWAPI response shape (count / next / previous / results paginators
      and flat resource schemas). Six top-level resources: films, people, planets, species,
      starships, vehicles. Read-only, no authentication required.
    humanURL: https://swapi.dev/
    baseURL: https://swapi.dev/api
    tags:
      - REST
      - Star Wars
      - Open Source
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://swapi.dev/documentation
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/swapi-openapi.yml
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://github.com/Juriy/swapi
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-films.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-people.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-planets.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-species.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-starships.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/swapi-vehicles.yaml
  - name: SWAPI REST API (swapi.tech)
    description: >-
      The Node/MongoDB community rebuild of SWAPI, maintained by @semperry at swapi.tech.
      Wraps the canonical SWAPI payloads inside `result.properties` envelopes and adds
      Discord/Reddit community surfaces. Exposes the same six top-level resources
      (films, people, planets, species, starships, vehicles).
    humanURL: https://www.swapi.tech/
    baseURL: https://www.swapi.tech/api
    tags:
      - REST
      - Star Wars
      - Open Source
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.swapi.tech/
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://github.com/semperry/swapi
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://swapi.dev/
  - type: PublicAPIsListing
    url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/Juriy/swapi
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/Juriy/swapi/blob/master/LICENSE
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server (johnpapa)
    url: https://github.com/johnpapa/mcp-starwars
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server (olaekdahl)
    url: https://github.com/olaekdahl/swapi-mcp-server
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server (glaucia86)
    url: https://github.com/glaucia86/swapi-mcp-server-app
  - type: Tools
    title: MCP Server (Qwizi)
    url: https://github.com/Qwizi/swapi-mcp
  - type: SDK
    title: Android SDK (Oleur)
    url: https://github.com/Oleur/SWAPI-Android-SDK
  - type: SDK
    title: Swift SDK (bratwursted)
    url: https://github.com/bratwursted/swapi-swift
  - type: SDK
    title: R Client (LionyxML)
    url: https://github.com/LionyxML/r-swapi-client
  - type: CodeExamples
    title: Java + Spring Sample
    url: https://github.com/vininjr/starwars
  - type: CodeExamples
    title: Flutter + GraphQL Sample
    url: https://github.com/kranfix/flutter_graphql_swapi
  - type: OpenAPI
    title: Community OpenAPI (kamilkodzi)
    url: https://github.com/kamilkodzi/oas-swapi
  - type: NaftikoVocabulary
    url: vocabulary/swapi-vocabulary.yaml
  - type: JsonLdContext
    url: json-ld/swapi-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: rules/swapi-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: APICommonsPlans
    url: plans/swapi-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: APICommonsRateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swapi-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]