Anycrap vs TasteDive

Anycrap serves a database of 35,000+ AI-generated absurdist product concepts — invented gadgets like "Thought-Cancelling Headphones" with a name, satirical description, category tags, and image. Registering an email gets you a free API key instantly (no card), and reads are capped at 60 requests/minute against endpoints for random products, listing/filtering, single lookups by slug, and category counts. There's also a companion npm CLI and an offline faker.js plugin for generating the same style of fake product copy without any network calls.

TasteDive's recommendation API takes one or more seed items — movies, music, shows, books, games, people, places, or brands, optionally typed to disambiguate titles like "movie:Chaplin" — and returns similar items scored by TasteDive's own recommendation engine, with an optional verbose mode adding descriptions and YouTube links. It requires a free access key (`k` parameter) issued on request, capped at 300 requests per hour, and there's no paid tier beyond that shared rate limit. Responses are plain JSON with no CORS headers, so browser-side calls need a server-side proxy.