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Monster Hunter World
MHW-DB is a free, keyless reference API for Monster Hunter: World covering monsters, weapons, armor, decorations, skills, items, locations, and ailments, with responses localizable to English, French, German, and simplified/traditional Chinese. The project has entered maintenance mode now that its authors launched a companion API for Monster Hunter Wilds (docs.wilds.mhdb.io), but the existing World data and endpoints remain fully live and unchanged.
MHW-DB is a free, keyless reference API for Monster Hunter: World with a JSON-document query DSL passed straight in the query string — nothing else in the atlas's Games & Comics seeds looks like this. A live GET this run against /monsters/1 returned a genuine 908 B monster object at HTTP 200, content-type: application/json.
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- No API key, signup, or credit card required — the live GET above returned real monster data with no auth header of any kind attached. CORS echoes the caller's
Originrather than a fixed wildcard, so a browser fetch still works: a request this run withOrigin: https://greatapis.comgot backaccess-control-allow-origin: https://greatapis.com.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.
Look up a single monster by id
GEThttps://mhw-db.com/monsters/1
{
"id": 1,
"type": "small",
"species": "herbivore",
"elements": [],
"name": "Aptonoth",
"description": "Docile herbivores that graze in packs. Their meat is considered a delicacy and is rich in nutrients. If one member of the herd is attacked, the rest will flee immediately.",
"ailments": [],
"locations": [
{ "id": 1, "zoneCount": 17, "name": "Ancient Forest" }
],
"resistances": [],
"weaknesses": [
{ "element": "fire", "stars": 1, "condition": null },
{ "element": "water", "stars": 1, "condition": null }
]
}The entry's url in apis.json points at the docs host, https://docs.mhw-db.com/ (confirmed live 200, 249,399 B) — the actual API is served from the bare https://mhw-db.com, a different host with no shared path prefix.
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Developer reference
https://mhw-db.com- GET/monsters/{id}
- GET/monsters
- GET/locations
- GET/ailments
Gotchas & limits
- The most useful endpoint is a Mongo-style JSON filter passed as a URL-encoded query string, not a REST path or a documented query-param DSL. A live GET this run against
/monsters?q={"type":"large"}&p={"name":true}returned 200, 913 B, a bare array of{"name":...}objects only —qis a filter document andpis a field projection, both raw JSON that must be URL-encoded.curlneeds-gto send this literally, or it treats the braces as a glob pattern and silently sends no query at all. - Bad ids return a generic RFC-2616 problem document, not a custom error shape. A live GET this run against
/monsters/999999returned HTTP 404, 123 B:{"type":"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc2616#section-10","title":"An error occurred","status":404,"detail":"Not Found"}— the escapedtypeURL points at an obsolete RFC section, not a project-specific error page. - The unfiltered
/monsterscollection is large — 128,150 B confirmed live this run — so an unscoped GET without theq/pfilter pulls the entire dataset over the wire every time. - CORS echoes the caller's
Originheader rather than serving a fixed*— confirmed live above withOrigin: https://greatapis.com. Don't hardcode an expectation of one exactaccess-control-allow-originvalue.