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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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Vehicles Data and Images API
http://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a free API that provides VIN decoding and lists of Makes/Models/Manufacturers/Parts/etc.
XML, JSON, CSV
Here ...
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How to get the name of a Wikidata item
You probably want this:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&props=labels&ids=Q19675&languages=es
The API command in English: Get information about some entities (...
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Open downloadable recipe database?
If you haven't already, check our ProgrammableWeb - it lets you search for APIs by keyword, type, etc.
http://www.programmableweb.com/search/recipe
http://www.programmableweb.com/search/allergy
Hope ...
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Is there an open API for world terrain data?
Past Self, I'm pleased to report that just after you asked this question, you were hired by a mapping company and worked on this exact thing, which was just released:
The Mapzen Elevation Tile ...
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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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Where can I find a REST API of stars and constellations?
For simple, there is a webservice called LookUP which provides a web, REST and XML api for star and constellation data by name.
If that doesn't quite meet your need, there's SIMBAD Astronomical ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
Why don't you use OSM's API?
A similar question was asked on gis:
How to get a list of OSM relations (id numbers) of cities and countries only?
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Are there any open datasets for soccer statistics?
In Kaggle there is an "European Soccer Database" dataset.
25k+ matches and players stats for European Professional Football
https://www.kaggle.com/hugomathien/soccer
(download requires ...
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Is there an API or global database for sports events that is used by famous sports websites?
You will find that most sports data is collected by commercial concerns who control licensing rather carefully, especially for current data. (See, for example, this from Sports-Reference.com about why ...
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Dataset of major newspapers content
Wikipedia: List of online newspaper archives
Many lack "official" interfaces and may restrict the use of materials (see their copyrights), but those that fit the requirements can be scraped with web ...
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How to get the name of a Wikidata item
You can get it also using SPARQL:
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE {
wd:Q19675 rdfs:label ?label .
FILTER (langMatches( lang(?label), "ES" ) )
}
See it on Wikidata Query Service.
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US Residential Mailing Addresses Databases
OpenAddresses.io does not have nearly 100% coverage but you may get lucky: http://results.openaddresses.io/
Open Street Map ("OSM") is another potential source: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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NOAA Satellite Data API?
Where are you searching? The NOAA and all of its child departments/organizations provide a plethora of satellite and API datasets, including satellite datasets accessible via API. The list below is a ...
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Are there free APIs for searching news articles that I can use to collect trend data in news coverage?
R
Your requirements are fairly specific, and I am posting this for future readers of this post having less restrictive requirements.
If you are into R, you can use the tm.plugin.webmining package.
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Any uses of Hydra Core Vocabulary?
If you mean Hydra-based Web APIs that closely resemble current JSON-based APIs, than I guess the answer is that no "significant site or project" has published anything production ready yet. Quite of a ...
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Soccer leagues/teams/players API
Football data is a page with free statistics in .csv with a large data about matches, beats, results, players and other interesting facts.
Another very common used by journalists (a friend who is in ...
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How to get soccer players Wikipedia URL?
First of all, if you want the page content, the best way to do this isn't by scraping, but by processing one of the database dumps - you can do this locally, and it'll allow you to get the raw page ...
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API to get Wikimedia Commons categories that are near a particular latitude/longitude
There is a more direct way to get this from Wikidata, if you want an API. That's the API used by AutoList. Returns JSON or JSONP.
Example query to retrieve all Commons categories within 0.1 kilometer ...
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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 ...
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OpenStreetMap: Finding shape dimensions from a query
The problem is that OSM has many nodes and ways on the map, and many of them overlap. I don't know if there is any way to filter data with Nominativ, but you can filter data with Overpass.
First step ...
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Free CDN (content delivery network) serving US Census shapefiles?
The U.S. Census Bureau is relied upon across the country for economics, demographics, research, and planning purposes. It builds itself to be used in many ways. It already handles a high load of ...
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Total cryptocurrency market cap over time
As @philshem suggested I wrote some python to gather the data
import pandas as pd
import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# Create date range for historical snapshots
Date = pd....
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Famous people API
You will need a way of measuring fame, but wikidata will probably be a good resource for you.
Here are women who could have been alive in the last one hundred years, who have the most Wikimedia ...
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Is there a source for various Scrabble dictionaries?
You can find an API here as well:
Free Scrabble Dictionary API
updated link
The current function of the scrabble dictionary API is to inform you whether the word you are looking up is located in any ...
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Dataset of major newspapers content
Material like this are rarely truly open because of copyright concerns. That said, there are academic news article corpora which can be obtained.
Reuters produced a corpus in 2000 which was later ...
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Soccer leagues/teams/players API
Football-data API
provide football data of all major european leagues in a machine-readable way like fixtures, teams, players, results and more. All this information is provided via an easy-to-use ...
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Historical weather forecast API
Have you tried Google BigQuery?
GBQ has now loaded climate data worldwide from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from over 9,000 weather stations. The data includes 2015 and ...
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What does a "null" result mean in the Census ACS API?
Table B25105 is not available at the Block Group level. The appendices show which tables are available at the block group level.
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