CLIENTS AND CODING EXAMPLES

Here you can find a list of available clients for our API and some coding examples for different languages. Feel free to use all the provided examples within your code.

PHP with composer

First install our library with composer:

$ composer require gender-api/client
use GenderApi\Client as GenderApiClient;

try {
    $apiClient = new GenderApiClient('insert your API key');

    // Query a single name
    $lookup = $apiClient->getByFirstName('elisabeth');
    if ($lookup->genderFound()) {
        echo $lookup->getGender();      // female
    }

    // Query a full name and improve the result by providing a country code
    $lookup = $apiClient->getByFirstNameAndLastNameAndCountry('Thomas Johnson', 'US');
    if ($lookup->genderFound()) {
        echo $lookup->getGender();      // male
        echo $lookup->getFirstName();   // Thomas
        echo $lookup->getLastName();    // Johnson
    }

} catch (GenderApi\Exception $e) {
    // Name lookup failed due to a network error or insufficient remaining requests
    // left. See https://gender-api.com/en/api-docs/error-codes
    echo 'Exception: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

PHP legacy

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

function getGender($firstname) {
  $myKey = 'insert your server key here';
  $data = json_decode(file_get_contents(
  'https://gender-api.com/get?key=' .
  $myKey .
  '&name=' . urlencode($firstname)));
  return $data->gender;
  }

  echo getGender('markus'); //Output: male

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

TypeScript

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

$ npm i gender-api.com-client --save
import {Client as GenderApiClient, ResultSingleName} from "gender-api.com-client";

const genderApiClient = new GenderApiClient("your API key");

try {
    genderApiClient.getByFirstName('theresa', (response: ResultSingleName) => {
      console.log(response.gender); //female
      console.log(response.accuracy); //98
    });

    genderApiClient.getByFirstNameAndCountry('john', 'US', (response: ResultSingleName) => {
      console.log(response.gender); //male
      console.log(response.accuracy); //99
    });
}
catch(e) {
  console.log('Error:', e);
}

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

JavaScript

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

$ npm i gender-api.com-client --save
try {
    var GenderApi = require('gender-api.com-client');

    var genderApiClient = new GenderApi.Client('your api key');

    genderApiClient.getByFirstName('theresa', function (response) {
        console.log(response.gender); //female
        console.log(response.accuracy); //98
    });

    genderApiClient.getByFirstNameAndCountry('john', 'US', function (response) {
        console.log(response.gender); //male
        console.log(response.accuracy); //99
    });

}
catch(e) {
    console.log('Error:', e);
}

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

Python

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Python 3.*
import json

from urllib.request import urlopen

myKey = "insert your server key here"
url = "https://gender-api.com/get?key=" + myKey + "&name=kevin"
response = urlopen(url)
decoded = response.read().decode('utf-8')
data = json.loads(decoded)
print( "Gender: " + data["gender"]); #Gender: male

Python 2.*
import json
import urllib2

myKey = "insert your servery key here"
data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen("https://gender-api.com/get?key=" + myKey + "&name=markus"))
print "Gender: " + data["gender"]; #Gender: male

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

Java

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

  try {

    String myKey = "insert your server key here";
    URL url = new URL("https://gender-api.com/get?key=" + myKey + "&name=markus");
    HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

    if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
      throw new RuntimeException("Error: " + conn.getResponseCode());
    }

    InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream());
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(input);

    Gson gson = new Gson();
    JsonObject json = gson.fromJson(reader, JsonObject.class);
    String gender = json.get("gender").getAsString();
    System.out.println("Gender: " + gender); // Gender: male
    conn.disconnect();

    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

C#

First install our library with composer:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

First install our library with npm:

See full client documentation here:

https://github.com/markus-perl/gender-api-client-npm

Download A Sample Project Here:

Documentation:

https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API
// Contributed Client: https://github.com/microknights/Gender-API

using MicroKnights.Gender_API;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace GenderAPI
{
    class Program
    {
        public static async Task RunTests(GenderApiClient client)
        {
            var responseStats = await client.GetStatistics();
            if( responseStats.IsSuccess ) {
                Console.WriteLine($"IsLimitReached: {responseStats.IsLimitReached}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Remaning requests: {responseStats.RemaningRequests}");

                const string Name = "Frank Nielsen";
                var responseName = await client.GetByNameAndCountry2Alpha(Name, "DK");
                if( responseName.IsSuccess ) {
                    Console.WriteLine($"{Name} is {responseName.GenderType.DisplayName}");
                }
                else {
                    Console.WriteLine($"ERRORS: {responseName.ErrorCode}-{responseName.Exception.Message}");
                }
            }
            else {
                Console.WriteLine($"ERRORS: {responseStats.ErrorCode}-{responseStats.Exception.Message}");
            }
        }

        public static Task UsingServiceProvider(string apiKey){
            // client is thread-safe, and can be used static.
            var serviceProvider = new ServiceCollection()
                .UseGenderAPI(apiKey)
                .BuildServiceProvider();

            return RunTests(serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<GenderApiClient>());
        }

        public static Task PlainConsole(string apiKey){
            // client is thread-safe, and can be used static.
            var client = new GenderApiClient(
                new HttpClient
                {
                    BaseAddress = new Uri("https://gender-api.com")
                },
                new GenderApiConfiguration
                {
                    ApiKey = apiKey
                });
            return RunTests(client);
        }

        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var apiKey = "?";

            await PlainConsole(apiKey);
            await UsingServiceProvider(apiKey);
        }
    }
}

Other Contributed Clients And Examples

Licenses may differ. The copyright is with the respective Author.

Chat