Every developer building a Kenyan app runs into the same problem. You need a list of all 47 counties. Or all Kenyan banks with their codes. Or M-Pesa paybill numbers for KPLC, NHIF, KRA. And every time you end up manually copying data from Wikipedia or a PDF.

I fixed that. I built a free public REST API that serves all of this data in one place.

No authentication. No sign up. Just call the endpoint and get your data.

Live API: https://kenya-api-90wq.onrender.com

GitHub: https://github.com/Carter254g/kenya-api

What the API Serves

Four datasets available right now:

All 47 Kenya counties with region and capital city

All Kenyan banks with codes and SWIFT numbers

M-Pesa paybill numbers by category

Kenya public holidays

How to Use It

Get all 47 counties

const res = await fetch ( ' https://kenya-api-90wq.onrender.com/api/counties ' ); const data = await res . json (); console .…