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AppBoard API

A free REST API for product discovery. Search the board, pull community-ranked results, and read structured data on categories, use cases, platforms, audiences and pricing. Authenticate with a free key you create in one click.

Quick start

Set APPBOARD_API_KEY to your key and run any of these.

Search products

curl -H "X-AppBoard-Api-Key: $APPBOARD_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.appboard.pro/api/v1/products?limit=5"

What's trending this week

curl -H "X-AppBoard-Api-Key: $APPBOARD_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.appboard.pro/api/v1/trending?period=week&limit=5"

Filter by category and platform

curl -H "X-AppBoard-Api-Key: $APPBOARD_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.appboard.pro/api/v1/products?category=ai&platform=web"

List the category vocabulary

curl -H "X-AppBoard-Api-Key: $APPBOARD_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.appboard.pro/api/v1/categories"

Authentication

Every request needs a free API key, sent in the X-AppBoard-Api-Key header. There is no query-parameter fallback and no Authorization header: an AppBoard key is not a session token, and a key in a URL leaks into access logs, browser history and referrers.

Create a key

Free and instant, up to 5 active keys per account so you can rotate them or keep one per project. The key is shown once — we store only a hash. Revoking takes effect on the next request.

Requests without a valid key are rejected with 401.

{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "this endpoint requires a free AppBoard API key — send it in the X-AppBoard-Api-Key header"
}

Rate limits

Two tiers per key. Every response carries the headers below, on success as well as on rejection, so you can back off before you are blocked.

30requests per minute

5,000requests per day

Response headers

`X-RateLimit-Limit`	The limit for whichever tier is closest to exhaustion
`X-RateLimit-Remaining`	Requests left in that tier
`X-RateLimit-Reset`	Unix time when that tier refills

Exceeding a tier returns 429 with a Retry-After header. A rejected request does not consume quota.

Endpoints

All endpoints are GET, return JSON, and are CORS-enabled. v1 is read-only.

Endpoint	Description
GET`/api/v1/products`	Search and filter products, ranked by community engagement
GET`/api/v1/trending`	Products gaining momentum, defaulting to the last week
GET`/api/v1/categories`	List every category
GET`/api/v1/use-cases`	List every use case
GET`/api/v1/platforms`	List every platform
GET`/api/v1/audiences`	List every target audience
GET`/api/v1/pricing-models`	List every pricing model

Query parameters

Filters take taxonomy names — the name values from the vocabulary endpoints — not ids. An unknown name returns 400 rather than an empty list, so a typo can't look like "no results".

Parameter	Values	Meaning
`period`	today · yesterday · week · month · all	Time window the ranking is computed over
`limit`	1–100 (default 20)	How many products to return (max 100)
`offset`	0+	Skip this many results, for paging
`category`	comma-separated names	Comma-separated category names
`use_case`	comma-separated names	Comma-separated use-case names
`platform`	comma-separated names	Comma-separated platform names
`audience`	comma-separated names	Comma-separated audience names
`pricing`	comma-separated names	Comma-separated pricing-model names

Response shape

Every endpoint returns the payload under data, with paging and the effective query echoed under meta. Product links carry AppBoard referral parameters — that attribution is why the API is free.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "slug": "loan-tools",
      "name": "Loan Tools",
      "tagline": "Mortgage calculator that shows the math behind your payments",
      "url": "https://loan.tools?utm_source=appboard.pro&ref=appboard.pro",
      "appboardUrl": "https://appboard.pro/product/loan-tools",
      "logoUrl": "https://api.appboard.pro/api/product/<uuid>/logo",
      "categories": ["finance"],
      "useCases": ["financial-planning"],
      "audiences": ["home-owners"],
      "platforms": ["web"],
      "pricing": "free",
      "community": {
        "score": 42,
        "upvotes": 2,
        "comments": 1,
        "follows": 0,
        "saves": 0,
        "rating": "0.0"
      },
      "creator": {
        "username": "quceca_6897",
        "reputation": 12,
        "url": "https://appboard.pro/creator/quceca_6897"
      },
      "promoted": false,
      "createdAt": "2026-08-02T10:12:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "count": 1, "limit": 20, "offset": 0, "period": "all" }
}