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For questions related to application programming interfaces. Use 'api-request' instead if you're looking for an API that provides specific open data.

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Open downloadable recipe database?

hrecipe (and microformats in general) are the bees knees and lucky for you are widely employed across the web; here's a list of sites actively publishing hrecipes in the wild; you can scrape and parse …
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Public database of book titles?

Open library has a goal of one page for every book, and has the data you seek. It's run by the internet archive.
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NOAA Satellite Data API?

The NOAA and all of its child departments/organizations provide a plethora of satellite and API datasets, including satellite datasets accessible via API. … API Web Service - weather.gov Web Services API (version 2) Documentation | Climate Data Online (CDO) | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) NCEI Data Service API User Documentation Tides & Currents Web …
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Converting Geographic Coordinates to New York City neighboorhood names

tamu has a killer geocoder, as well as a definitive list of other free geocoders. all you have to do is upload your data http://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/BatchProcess/ http://geoservices.t …
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Is there an API for soft erotic pictures?

Not specifically a soft erotic API, but you can use flickr and I'm going to assume tumblr, to get what you are asking for. flickr's API is incredibly stable, you'll just have to filter out what is/is not … under the erotic tag in flickr, you'll get mixed results; heads up, some may be NSFW: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/erotic I'm assuming tumblr because it has similar content as well as a stable API
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Distance between different places in USA

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has this data available in its County Distance Database. Its incredibly detailed, and goes back to 1990.
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A web API user's guide for free and open data

Also typically you're not going to have many problems/restrictions with API limits. The markup is the API. You just have to parse it, and there are libraries for that all over GitHub. … They provide a web API, and it's free and open. …
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Current biohazard/disease outbreak dataset

CDC CDC Current Outbreak List: http://www.cdc.gov/outbreaks/ Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks - Foodborne outbreaks listed by year http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/multistate-outbreaks/outbreaks- …
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Data on hurricanes?

NOAA's Hurricane Center has current gis as well as archived hurricane data
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Are there any open datasets for soccer statistics?

football.db free open public domain football data http://openfootball.github.io/ here's a python tool for fun https://github.com/soccermetrics/soccermetrics-client-py
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Public domain paintings database

flickr public domain search for cc images of Paintings....you'll probably want to fine tune the search terms, because these results aren't all paintings, but this is what flickr commons have yet to fa …
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Is there an API or global database for sports events that is used by famous sports websites?

not sure about used by famous websites but you can try this sports data api: http://developer.sportsdatallc.com/ as well as yahoo! … developer fantasy sports api: https://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/guide/ there are a few more here: http://www.programmableweb.com/search/sports …
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Where do I find what to put in queries to openFEC

You can cycle through candidates at the candidates endpoint: https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidates/?sort_nulls_large=true&api_key=DEMO_KEY&sort=name&per_page=20&page=1 which provides you with every p …
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Publishing Weather Data under Creative Commons / Peer Production License

try contacting the open science data cloud; at the bottom of this link is a contact email regarding submissions: https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/ you also can get free hosting for o …
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What tool can I use to manage a researcher network bibliography?

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports a …
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