Studio Ghibli vs Trace Moe

The original ghibliapi.herokuapp.com now returns Heroku's 'No such app' placeholder — Heroku retired free dynos in November 2022 — but the project lives on at the community-maintained ghibliapi.vercel.app mirror, confirmed live with a real films listing and Access-Control-Allow-Origin echoing the request's Origin. It remains a free, keyless, read-only dataset of Ghibli films, people, and locations.

Trace.moe's real search endpoint at api.trace.moe was reconfirmed live — a deliberately broken image URL returned a proper JSON error rather than a network failure, and a real image search (a Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka 2 screenshot) returned genuine matching-scene data with Access-Control-Allow-Origin echoing the request's Origin. It's free and keyless up to a 100-search/24-hour quota per IP (confirmed live via GET /me, not the 1,000/month figure some third-party write-ups repeat); Patreon sponsorship raises both the daily quota and concurrency.