chucknorris.io vs justmeme.wtf

chucknorris.io is a free, keyless JSON API serving hand-curated Chuck Norris jokes, either fully random or filtered across 16 categories (career, dev, movie, political, sport, and more). It also supports free-text search over the joke corpus and returns each joke with a permalink and an icon-URL field for quick embedding. There's no rate limit, no signup, and no paid tier — it's run as a hobby project on Heroku behind Cloudflare.

justmeme.wtf is a free, keyless meme API covering 2,000+ templates with endpoints for browsing, searching by name (e.g. "drake"), pulling trending memes and categories, and an AI-generation endpoint that picks a fitting template and writes captions from a text prompt. Every response is JSON with CORS headers enabled by default, and the whole API is rate-limited to 60 requests per minute per IP rather than gated behind an account. It's a newer entrant compared to Imgflip and Meme Maker, aimed squarely at no-signup, drop-in meme generation.