SWAPI API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://www.swapi.tech/api/people/1

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 1,695 bytes · compressed

Response time

562 ms (median of 3) · fastest 234 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Rate limit

100 per window (99 remaining at test time)

Served by

cloudflare

Recorded

2026-08-10

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://www.swapi.tech/api/people/1 on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "message": "ok",
  "result": {
    "properties": {
      "created": "2026-08-10T02:14:18.738Z",
      "edited": "2026-08-10T02:14:18.738Z",
      "name": "Luke Skywalker",
      "gender": "male",
      "skin_color": "fair",
      "hair_color": "blond",
      "height": "172",
      "eye_color": "blue",
      "mass": "77",
      "homeworld": "https://www.swapi.tech/api/planets/1",
      "birth_year": "19BBY",
      "vehicles": [
        "https://www.swapi.tech/api/vehicles/14"
      ],
      "starships": [
        "https://www.swapi.tech/api/starships/12"
      ],
      "films": [
        "https://www.swapi.tech/api/films/1"
      ],
      "…": "(1 more fields)"
    },
    "_id": "5f63a36eee9fd7000499be42",
    "description": "A person within the Star Wars universe",
    "uid": "1",
    "__v": 4
  },
  "apiVersion": "1.0",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-10T19:55:32.250Z",
  "support": {
    "contact": "[email protected]",
    "donate": "https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=2HGAUVTWGR5T2&no_recurring=0&item_name=Support+Swapi+and+keep+the+galaxy%27s+data+free%21+Your+donation+fuels+open-so…",
    "partnerDiscounts": {
      "saberMasters": {
        "…": "(2 more fields)"
      },
      "heartMath": {
        "…": "(2 more fields)"
      }
    }
  },
  "social": {
    "discord": "https://discord.gg/zWvA6GPeNG",
    "reddit": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SwapiOfficial/",
    "github": 
…

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

const url = "https://www.swapi.tech/api/people/1";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://www.swapi.tech/api/people/1"
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "https://www.swapi.tech/api/people/1"

What Can You Build?

// Search for video content
const query = 'tutorial';
const response = await fetch(`https://www.swapi.tech`);
const data = await response.json();
const videos = data.results || data.items || data.videos || [];
videos.slice(0, 5).forEach(v => {
  console.log(`🎬 ${v.title || v.name}: ${v.url || v.link || ''}`);
});

// Fetch trending or popular videos
const response = await fetch(`https://www.swapi.tech`);
const data = await response.json();
const trending = data.results || data.items || data.trending || [];
const container = document.getElementById('video-feed');
trending.slice(0, 5).forEach(video => {
  const el = document.createElement('div');
  el.innerHTML = `<h3>${video.title || video.name}</h3><p>${video.description || ''}</p>`;
  container.appendChild(el);
});

// Fetch show or episode details
const response = await fetch(`https://www.swapi.tech`);
const data = await response.json();
const show = data.show || data.series || data;
console.log('Show:', show.name || show.title || 'SWAPI');
const episodes = show.episodes || data.episodes || [];
episodes.slice(0, 5).forEach((ep, i) => {
  console.log(`  S${ep.season || 1}E${ep.episode || i+1}: ${ep.title || ep.name}`);
});

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.