Developers

The Builtingh API. Read-only JSON for everything made in Ghana that’s public on Builtingh. No key, no sign-up.

Version 1 · GET only · CORS open · 120 requests a minute per IP

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/projects/api/v1/projects?platform=app&sort=top&limit=5

Live projects, newest or most upvoted first.

platform: app or website
category: a category value, e.g. finance (see /categories)
sort: new (default) or top
limit: 1–50, default 20
offset: for paging, default 0

GET /api/v1/projects/{slug}/api/v1/projects/harmaa

One project, with its description, links, creator and team.

GET /api/v1/creators/{username}/api/v1/creators/iamjulius

A creator’s public profile and their live projects.

GET /api/v1/search/api/v1/search?q=momo

The same search as the site: projects, creators, collections and teams.

q: at least 2 characters
limit: per group, 1–10, default 5

GET /api/v1/categories/api/v1/categories

Every category with its count of live projects.

Responses

Lists come back as { data, meta }; single things as { data }. Every project and person carries a url to its page here; link to it when you show our data.

Errors are { error } with 400 for a bad query, 404 for something that isn’t public, 429 when you’ve hit the limit (wait for Retry-After), and 500 if something broke on our side.

Only public things are returned: live projects, approved creators, public collections and public teams. Never emails or anything private. Responses are cached for a minute.

Example

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "…",
      "slug": "payghana",
      "title": "PayGhana",
      "subtitle": "Split bills with mobile money",
      "platform": "app",
      "category": "finance",
      "category_label": "Finance",
      "url": "https://builtingh.com/discover/apps/payghana",
      "icon_url": "https://…",
      "image_url": "https://…",
      "upvotes": 612,
      "views": 18400,
      "published_at": "2026-09-14T09:12:00Z",
      "creator": {
        "username": "amamensah",
        "name": "Ama Mensah",
        "avatar_url": "https://…",
        "url": "https://builtingh.com/creators/amamensah"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "limit": 20, "offset": 0, "total": 214 }
}