PotterAPI

Important

The new base URL is https://potterapi-fedeperin.vercel.app but you can still use the old one (not recommended) https://potterapi.onrender.com/

PotterAPI is a Harry Potter API developed with Express.js and available in multiple languages.
This API stores information and images of books, characters and spells.

Languages

This API is available in the following languages:

• /en English
• /es Español
• /fr Français
• /it Italiano
• /pt Português

If there's any problem with the translations, you can open an issue or a pull request.

Endpoints

The endpoints are the following:
Note: The [lang] in the endpoint should be replaced by the corresponding language reference without the brackets (GET /en/books for example)

GET /[lang]/books

Returns information and images about Harry Potter books.

Key	Type	Value
number	number	The book number
title	string	The title of the book in the selected language
originalTitle	string	The original book title in English
releaseDate	string	The release date
description	string	A summary of the book
pages	number	The original book's number of pages
cover	string	An URL to an image with the original cover of the book

GET /[lang]/characters

Returns information and images of Harry Potter characters.

Key	Type	Value
fullName	string	The full name of the character
nickname	string	The nickname of the character
hogwartsHouse	string	The Hogwarts House this character belong to
interpretedBy	string	The name of the actor/actress the character was interpreted by in the movies
children	object	An array with all the children of the character
image	string	An URL to an image of the character
birthdate	string	The birthdate of the character. Format "Month Day, Year"

GET /[lang]/houses

Returns the four Hogwarts Houses with some extra data

Key	Type	Value
house	string	Name of the House
emoji	string	An emoji representing the house
founder	string	The name of the founder of the house
colors	object	An array with the colors in english of the house
animal	string	The animal of the house

GET /[lang]/spells

Returns all the spells mentioned in the saga with a description.

Key	Type	Value
spell	string	The name of the spell
use	string	Description of the spell

You have to change the [lang] by one of the two-letter codes of the languages supported.
Every endpoint has a /random, which returns a random item of the full list. For example /en/spells/random returns a single random spell in English.

Params

Every endpoint (excluding the /randoms) can recieve the following query params:

Param	Recieves	Description
index	number	Returns only one item, the one that on the whole list has the index selected
max	number	Returns the whole list cropped by the number passed
page	number	If max is used, you can also use this param to indicate where to start cropping
search	string	Searches in all the items and returns the best matches

Examples

Javascript

const fetchSpells = async () => {
    const res = await fetch('https://potterapi-fedeperin.vercel.app/en/spells')
    const spells = await res.json()

    return spells
}

fetch('https://potterapi-fedeperin.vercel.app/es/characters?search=Weasley')
    .then(res => res.json())
    .then(res => {
        console.log(res)
    })

Python

import requests

def get_book():
    response = requests.get('https://potterapi-fedeperin.vercel.app/en/books')
    books = response.json()
    return books

Running locally

Clone Repo:

With HTTPS

$ git clone https://github.com/fedeperin/potterapi.git

With SSH

$ git clone [email protected]:fedeperin/potterapi.git

Run in dev mode

Run this to start a local server:

$ npm run dev

Test

Before submitting a PR or making a commit run the following command:

$ npm run test

Previous APIs

This is a version that unifies my Harry Potter API and my Harry Potter API English, also adding more info. This API is using Express.js instead of json-server.