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Free source of AIS data (API)
The Norwegian Coastal Administration have an open AIS stream available, licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0.
It's a TCP endpoint that you can access with a tool ...
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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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Free source of AIS data (API)
Live AIS data for most of the globe is available from https://aisstream.io for free.
The catch is the data is delivered via WebSocket and not a raw tcp connection. There are a few examples in their ...
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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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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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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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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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Free source of AIS data (API)
AIS data for the USA is available from https://marinecadastre.gov/ais/.
I don't know about an API, but the site offers a variety of Arc Python-based tools that may lead you to a solution.
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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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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
On the USDA Food Composition Database page you posted, there's a form to create an account via their website. That form submits a HTTP POST message to the following link:
https://api.data.gov/api-...
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geonames.org data dump seems incomplete compared to its API?
Are you sure that Guatemala City ID3598132 is not in your file ?
I used the version of allCountries.txt found here.
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Average Monthly temperatures for cities around the world
If there is no well documented API for weatherbase.com, it might be interesting to scrape the information. Here is the list of cities the site contains with their URL. You can select some cities and ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
I suggest to try Geonames, which is a well-recognized open database of geolocalized places worldwide. Geonames links the name of places (from hotel to cities) to coordinates (longitude & latitude, ...
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Where can I find API for companies in Sweden?
OpenCorporates is a global database of companies. They provide an API.
For instance, this query lists the 1,345,795 Swedish companies that they know of:
https://api.opencorporates.com/companies/...
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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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free REST API for daily end-of-day S&P 500 index
By looking into yFinance source code I've found this query:
https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/%5EGSPC
where %5E is ^ ( ^GSPC )
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Open downloadable recipe database?
I found this recipe scraper python package which you can utilize to download.
Recipe Scraper Python Script:
https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers
If you are lazy enough to do, you can download ...
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Dataset of major newspapers content
You can use Webhose.io API to integrate the data you are looking for. You can filter for news articles, blog posts, online discussions and much more. By default you get 1,000 monthly API requests for ...
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Get season statistics for NFL players
Since the 2016 season is about to start I figure I'll update this to hopefully help some others that stumble upon this page.
The best resource for getting free and comprehensive nfl statistics is the ...
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Roadworks datasets or API services
You can apply to use the freely available Waze API for road conditions here.
https://www.waze.com/sdk
For road conditions in Europe there are links for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, ...
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I get 'certificate verify failed' URLError when trying to download data from openFDA
I'm not sure what underlying HTTP packages pandas uses, but I found that the default settings of the requests package in python does not work with SSL and this site:
import requests
url = 'https://...
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Are there any APIs that find the shortest sea distance between two points, given the latitude and longitude?
There are free data sets available for distances between ports:
www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov or
msi.nga.mil
Also you will find some providers that give you distances between ports depending on AIS ...
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Get Historic Temperature Data by GPS and Timestamp Using R
I recommend trying rnoaa https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rnoaa/ - It's an interface to many different data sources from NOAA.
df <- data.frame(
id = letters[1:6],
time = c("2016-06-01 ...
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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
We have set a rate limit of 1000 requests/hr per IP rather than key. Our documentation now reflects this change.
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
check (and collaborate!) at Data Packaged Core Datasets the specific datasets:
https://github.com/datasets/population-city
https://github.com/datasets/world-cities
Both are related to https://github....
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Are the API keys on data.gov considered sensitive?
There are some API limits tied to a specific API key. If a third-party used your key, their calls would effect how many calls you can make.
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Weird results in search from wikidata
...like if I made the filter of my 50 previous results...
Wikibase:mwapi supports the limit parameter of the Entity Search service:
SELECT ?item ?label ?order WHERE {
VALUES (?type ?name) {(wd:Q5 "...
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