SWAPI - The Star Wars API

Statistics

People: 82

Planets: 60

Films: 6

Species : 37

Vehicles: 39

Starships: 36

What is this?

The Star Wars API is the world's first quantified and programmatically-formatted set of Star Wars data.

After hours of watching films and trawling through content online, we present to you all the People, Films, Species, Starships, Vehicles and Planets from Star Wars.

We've formatted this data in JSON and exposed it to you in a RESTish implementation that allows you to programmatically collect and measure the data.

Check out the documentation to get started consuming swapi data

What happened to swapi.co?

Unfortulately swapi.co is not maintained anymore, and the service is currently down. This is a branch of SWAPI that will be supported going forward.

What can you use this for?

Comparing the data from Star Wars has never been easier. Here are some examples using the Python helper library

List the planets in order of size:

import swapi
for planet in swapi.get_all("planets").order_by("diameter"):
    print(planet.name)

View the people who have piloted more than one starship:

import swapi
for people in swapi.get_all("people").iter():
    if len(people.starships) > 1:
        print(people.name)

Discover if Jar Jar Binks ruined a film just by being in it:

import swapi
pm = swapi.get_film(4)
jj = swapi.get_person(36)
for c in pm.get_characters().iter():
    if c.name == jj.name:
        print("Why George, why.")

What are the features?

We're using Django and Django REST Framework to serve a RESTish API to you. The data is all formatted in JSON and we also support JSON Schema for programmatically understanding the attributes of each resource.

Seeing the release trailer for Episode VII also made me stupidly enthusiastic for Star Wars again.

Who are you?

I am Juriy Bura, Solution Architect and author of JavaScript game development book and online React courses.

Original author?

This project was originally built and maintained by Paul Hallett.

Copyright and stuff?

Star Wars and all associated names are copyright Lucasfilm ltd.

This project is open source and carries a BSD licence.

All data has been freely collected from open sources such as Wookiepedia.

Contributors

SWAPI would not be possible without contributions from the following people: