Data Sources

GEThttps://api-colors.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

Data Sources is an endpoint of the Colors API. Name, convert and check contrast for any color, with 31,919 curated names and WCAG math.

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Request

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl

curl "https://api-colors.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-colors.dataandapis.com/v1/sources", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-colors.dataandapis.com/v1/sources",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "color-names",
      "name": "meodai color-names",
      "publisher": "meodai and contributors",
      "licence": "MIT",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/meodai/color-names",
      "file_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meodai/color-names/main/src/colornames.csv",
      "cadence": "community-updated; occasional re-scrape",
      "record_count": 31916,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-06"
    },
    {
      "slug": "css-colors",
      "name": "CSS named colors",
      "publisher": "W3C CSS Color Module",
      "licence": "W3C spec constants",
      "source_url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#named-colors",
      "file_url": null,
      "cadence": "static",
      "record_count": 139,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-06"
    }
  ]
}

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