DummyImage vs EmojiHub

DummyImage generates placeholder images on the fly from a simple URL pattern — width, height, background/text color, and format (PNG, GIF, or JPG) are all encoded in the path — with no signup or key. A live GET against the real host returned a genuine PNG carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming auth None.

EmojiHub serves a database of 1,791 emoji sorted into categories and groups as plain JSON, with both the unicode character and an HTML code ready to embed for each entry. A live GET against the current gateway, emojihub.yurace.pro (the community-maintained successor to the original Heroku-hosted host named in its docs), returned genuine data with no key required and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes.