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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Large bibliographic database of research papers
EDIT 2017
PubMed Central changed all adressess and some methods.
Only tips:
To bulk access you can use complex FTP procedures similar to the described below in the "OLD" section... Or a simple perl ...
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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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How to get soccer players Wikipedia URL?
By using WikidataQuery API you can get all items which have occupation (P106) soccer player (Q937857) and link to English Wikipedia: enwiki
http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=claim[106:937857] AND link[...
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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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Fundamentals data for European stocks
Just wanted to share that there is now fundamentals data on European stocks on Quandl. Check it out here: https://www.quandl.com/data/RB1 This database has a special focus on European and Asian stocks ...
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