JokeAPI vs TasteDive

JokeAPI (Sv443) serves programmable jokes across 7 categories — Misc, Programming, Dark, Pun, Spooky, Christmas, and a catch-all Any — with content filtering by flag (nsfw, religious, political, racist, sexist, explicit) so integrators can enforce a safe-mode. A single GET can return the response as JSON, XML, YAML, or plain text via a `format` query parameter, and jokes come as either single one-liners or two-part setup/delivery pairs. It's free, keyless, open source, and self-hosted by its maintainer with no paid tier.

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.