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FFXIV Collect vs Universalis
FFXIV Collect is a community-run reference for Final Fantasy XIV's collectable content — mounts, minions, achievements, orchestrion rolls, and more — cross-referenced with each character's owned/missing status and rarity percentage. Its read-only REST API mirrors the site's own data, including per-character collection lookups by Lodestone ID. No key is required, and the full endpoint list is published as a Postman collection.
Universalis is a crowdsourced market board API for Final Fantasy XIV, aggregating item listings, prices, and sale history submitted by the game's own community-plugin ecosystem across every data center and world. It exposes a keyless REST API alongside a WebSocket feed for real-time listing updates, both free to use. The old `/docs/index.html` path now permanently redirects to a dedicated documentation site.
| FFXIV Collect | Universalis | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, WebSocket |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Universalis supports 2 response formats, while FFXIV Collect offers fewer — pick Universalis for more integration flexibility.