Developers

Every shortcut on ShortcutRef is available as plain JSON, and every app has a ready-made widget you can drop into your own page. No API key, no sign-up, no rate limit.

JSON API

List every app

curl -s https://shortcutref.com/api/index.json
Response (trimmed) 
{
  "generated": "2026-08-22",
  "count": 129,
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to ShortcutRef (https://shortcutref.com).",
  "apps": [
    {
      "slug": "vscode",
      "name": "VS Code",
      "shortcuts": 81,
      "categories": 10,
      "page": "https://shortcutref.com/en/vscode/",
      "api": "https://shortcutref.com/api/vscode.json"
    },
    "…"
  ]
}

One app, every shortcut

curl -s https://shortcutref.com/api/vscode.json
Response (trimmed) 
{
  "app": "VS Code",
  "slug": "vscode",
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "General",
      "shortcuts": [
        {
          "action": "Show Command Palette",
          "win": "Ctrl+Shift+P",
          "mac": "⌘⇧P",
          "linux": "Ctrl+Shift+P"
        },
        {
          "action": "Quick Open / Go to File",
          "win": "Ctrl+P",
          "mac": "⌘P",
          "linux": "Ctrl+P"
        },
        "…"
      ]
    },
    "…"
  ],
  "page": "https://shortcutref.com/en/vscode/",
  "source": "ShortcutRef — https://shortcutref.com"
}

Served with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so you can fetch it straight from the browser. Data is rebuilt on every deploy — check the generated field.

Licence

Free to use with attribution to ShortcutRef (https://shortcutref.com). If you ship it in a product, a link back is all we ask.

Embed builder

Pick an app, choose the look, copy the iframe. The widget is a static page — no script of ours runs on your site.

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