API · v1

TontonTools Developer API

A free, fast REST API for 25+ tools — word counting, hashing, encoding, UUIDs, JSON utilities and more. JSON in, JSON out. Get a key in seconds.

Get your free API key

No account needed. 60 requests/minute, 1,000/day — plenty for most projects.

Try it live

Pick a tool, paste your API key, and run a real request against the API.

Tool X-API-Key

Quick start

Base URL: https://tonton-tools.com/api/v1 — authenticate with the X-API-Key header. All responses are JSON with an ok field. Full OpenAPI spec available.

cURL

curl -X POST https://tonton-tools.com/api/v1/word-counter \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"The quick brown fox."}'

JavaScript (fetch)

const res = await fetch("https://tonton-tools.com/api/v1/word-counter", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ text: "The quick brown fox." })
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.result);

PHP

$ch = curl_init("https://tonton-tools.com/api/v1/word-counter");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_POST => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type: application/json"],
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode(["text" => "The quick brown fox."]),
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	`/api/v1/tools`	List all available tools and their parameters. (no key)
GET	`/api/v1/tools/{slug}`	Metadata for one tool. (no key)
POST	`/api/v1/{slug}`	Run a tool with JSON params. (key required)
GET	`/api/v1/me`	Your key info and quota. (key required)

Rate limits. 60 requests/minute and 1,000/day per key. Every response includes X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-Daily-Remaining headers. Exceeding a limit returns 429.

Tool reference

25 tools. Each is called with POST /api/v1/{slug}.

Text

word-counter Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time.

text string required — Text to analyse

character-counter Character Counter

Count characters with and without spaces.

text string required — Text to count

case-converter Case Converter

Convert text between cases: upper, lower, title, sentence, camel, snake, kebab.

text string required — Text to convert

case string required — One of: upper, lower, title, sentence, camel, snake, kebab

text-to-slug Text to Slug

Convert text into a clean URL slug.

text string required — Text to slugify

reverse-text Reverse Text

Reverse a string character by character.

text string required — Text to reverse

remove-duplicate-lines Remove Duplicate Lines

Remove duplicate lines from text, preserving order.

text string required — Text (one item per line)

lorem-ipsum-generator Lorem Ipsum Generator

Generate placeholder paragraphs of lorem ipsum text.

paragraphs integer — Number of paragraphs (1-20)

Encoding

base64-encode Base64 Encode

Encode text to Base64.

text string required — Text to encode

base64-decode Base64 Decode

Decode Base64 to text.

text string required — Base64 string to decode

url-encode URL Encode

Percent-encode a string for safe use in URLs.

text string required — Text to encode

url-decode URL Decode

Decode a percent-encoded URL string.

text string required — Text to decode

html-encode HTML Encode

Convert special characters to HTML entities.

text string required — Text to encode

html-decode HTML Decode

Convert HTML entities back to characters.

text string required — Text to decode