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I have created a utility library and open sourced it on Github, and I'd like to document the HTTP utilities. I created this around some apps I've developed, but none of the APIs I use are for public consumption. I want to use a well known public API in my documentation so that code samples will work and be really easy to understand for the user, but I don't work with any such API so I'm not familiar with any...looking for suggestions.

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I don't understand your use of the term API. Are you looking for a documentation generator? If so, for which language? – ajlane May 10 at 4:31
@ajlane No, I mean a web product that offers a public api. For example, Twitter, but I personally am not into Twitter, so I'd rather not represent my library with examples of how to pull data from Twitter. I developed a client side library for consuming web resources, and the most common case is data from an api. To be more clear, the platform I created this library for is Android. Android apps typically consume raw data, so my HTTP utilities make this a one line operation (or a few if passing extra objects like cookies, POST params, auth creds, etc). – Rich May 10 at 4:35

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Programmable Web has a list of popular public web APIs sorted by the number of mashups which use it: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?sort=mashups

The top 10 from that list:

  1. Google Maps
  2. Twitter
  3. YouTube
  4. Flickr
  5. Amazon
  6. Facebook
  7. Twilio
  8. Last.fm
  9. eBay
  10. Google Search
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Exactly what I wanted...thanks! – Rich May 10 at 4:45

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