Datly

A developer-friendly API for generating realistic fake data – Users, Comments, Posts, and more!

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🌟 Features

• REST API endpoints for Users, Products, Posts, Likes, Comments, Loans, News.
• Customizable query parameters: pagination, limit, filters.
• Interactive API Playground to test endpoints.
• Developer-friendly docs built with Docsify 4.13.1.
• Free, open-source, and easy to integrate into any project

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📌 Keywords / Tags

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⚡ API Overview

Endpoint	Description	Sample URL
/users	Fetch random users	https://datly.onrender.com/api/users?limit=10
/products	Fetch random products	https://datly.onrender.com/api/products?limit=10
/posts	Fetch random posts	https://datly.onrender.com/api/posts?limit=10
/comments	Fetch random comments	https://datly.onrender.com/api/comments?limit=10
/likes	Fetch random likes	https://datly.onrender.com/api/likes?limit=10
/loans	Fetch random loans	https://datly.onrender.com/api/loans?limit=10
/news	Fetch random news	https://datly.onrender.com/api/news?limit=10

Every endpoint supports the limit query param (default: 10). Example response is with limit: 1

Example Response (/users):

{
  "total": 1,
  "users": [
    {
      "id": "7e7a7aaa-1d4b-42e3-84f2-1e247362c8d1",
      "fname": "Rebekah",
      "lname": "Mann",
      "email": "Amelie50@yahoo.com",
      "avatar": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/faker-js/assets-person-portrait/female/512/97.jpg",
      "country": "Anguilla",
      "joinedAt": "2025-04-02T22:42:17.412Z"
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/products):

{
  "total": 1,
  "products": [
    {
      "id": "33366992-9b4c-428a-a0f7-4168edfacf8e",
      "title": "Sleek Steel Chair",
      "price": "180.95",
      "description": "Experience the pink brilliance of our Fish, perfect for jubilant environments",
      "category": "Books",
      "rating": 3.647617737036779,
      "stock": 15
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/posts):

{
  "total": 1,
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "4aea0b3d-1582-4936-915a-588b56460e18",
      "title": "Thesis culpo baiulus spoliatio chirographum videlicet claro.",
      "body": "Turba cinis arma tunc. Aegre itaque adsidue calco colligo similique pariatur deduco sordeo caries. Sumo reprehenderit cerno tam thesaurus.\nDecens aliquid dicta cilicium volaticus impedit consectetur demitto tametsi. Ater alveus tot comis stips vinitor sui arcesso addo videlicet. Illo vulpes dolore viriliter ter aperte contego.",
      "author": "Miss Thelma Lind I",
      "likes": 368,
      "commentsCount": 8,
      "createdAt": "2025-11-07T04:55:59.821Z"
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/comments):

{
  "total": 1,
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "be5f6814-e47c-4529-ae0b-6b21d2d46598",
      "postId": "7975c1ae-9276-49f5-a8f6-834c11b32f5c",
      "user": "Monica Hegmann",
      "comment": "Vetus adficio coadunatio explicabo.",
      "createdAt": "2025-11-07T03:59:06.504Z"
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/likes):

{
  "total": 1,
  "likes": [
    {
      "id": "e2210c85-13e1-46d7-8634-b3ebed52c13b",
      "postId": "eb7f9172-54c9-4c75-a823-646c8af7a5cf",
      "userId": "e602a897-d1f7-4f6a-9535-a5cecf5ec583",
      "createdAt": "2025-11-07T01:46:09.056Z"
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/loans):

{
  "total": 1,
  "loans": [
    {
      "Loan_ID": "KIMV8X98",
      "Gender": "Male",
      "Married": "No",
      "Dependents": "2",
      "Education": "Not Graduate",
      "Self_Employed": "No",
      "ApplicantIncome": 22555,
      "CoapplicantIncome": 13826,
      "LoanAmount": 149.43561309498557,
      "Loan_Amount_Term": 360,
      "Credit_History": 0,
      "Property_Area": "Rural",
      "Loan_Status": "Y",
      "SanctionedDate": "2025-02-05T03:13:39.284Z"
    }
  ]
}

Example Response (/news):

{
  "total": 1,
  "news": [
    {
      "id": "7d8a7c41-f0ed-4f8c-9dde-fa2666d2368d",
      "headline": "Supellex vulgaris turbo minus.",
      "category": "Business",
      "author": "Lance Shields-O'Hara",
      "summary": "Cinis tabesco approbo thalassinus cupressus utor unde officia tracto. Bis ter amplus aer audio comptus desino. Alter concedo abstergo creo sol deleniti patruus.",
      "publishedAt": "2025-11-03T06:01:00.133Z",
      "url": "https://best-reconsideration.biz",
      "image": "https://picsum.photos/seed/gyGU7K/1546/2317?grayscale&blur=1"
    }
  ]
}