Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Insects API
A JSON API to explore the insect data-set
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Insects API launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · insect.sh · its alternatives →
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BugPic▲247Identify any insect in seconds, just by snapping a photo
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m excited to share Antfly: a distributed document database and search engine written in Go that combines full-text, vector, and graph search. Use it for distributed multimodal search and memory, or for local dev and small deployments. I built this to give developers a single-binary deployment with native ML inference (via a built-in service called Termite), meaning you don't need external API calls for vector search unless you want to use them. Some things that might interest this crowd: Capabilities: Multimodal indexing (images, audio, video), MongoDB-style in-place updates, and…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I'm building these collection of APIs to help query SERP, PDP and Reviews data from Ecommerce sites solo since the past few years. I have hundreds of customers and revenue. ScrapingBee (a popular scraping API service) has started copying me now so I thought of doing a Show HN finally. Please butcher my product. I'd really appreciate your feedback. Do reach out via email if you'd like extra free credits, will add them to your account if your email address doesn't look like spam.
2024 · docs.unwrangle.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · fauna.com · its alternatives →
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Insecta▲11insects, ios, app store, arkit, ar, nature, application
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Bugsy▲95Give a voice to insects and build your collection
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Search for bugs across all the major browser vendors
2016 · browser-issue-tracker-search.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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Search for SuperHeroes through a Fly API 🚀
2021 · akashj.com · its alternatives →
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Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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A map of events & projects in the global GraphQL community
2017 · graphql-world.com · its alternatives →
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Identify insect, butterflie, spider, and... Bug Bitr Finder!
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unlock your knowledge with 2000 API prompts
2023 · miguelanticonam.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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