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 A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.
 
-Sponsor:
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-<a href="https://ultimatecourses.com?utm_source=github.com"><img src="https://ultimatecourses.com/assets/img/banners/ultimate-angular-github.svg" style="width:100%;max-width:100%"></a>
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-A public API for this project can be found [here](https://github.com/davemachado/public-api) - thanks to [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/) for helping us provide this service!
+A public API for this project can be found [here](https://github.com/davemachado/public-api)!
 
 For information on contributing to this project, please see the [contributing guide](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).