Datasets
Awesome JSON Datasets 
¶
A curated list of awesome JSON datasets that don't require authentication.
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Bitcoin¶
Pro Tip: Check out Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations for more cryptocurrency prices.
Climate¶
- US Annual Average Temperature and Anomaly (1880-2015 (vs. 1901-2000 Average)
- Contiguous US Annual Precipitation (1895-2015)
Crime¶
- DATA.POLICE.UK
- Crimes at Location
- Street Crime Dates
- Neighbourhoods
- List of Forces
- DATA.GOV
- Chicago (historical data since 2001)
- Los Angeles (historical data since 2010)
Currency¶
Food¶
Gaming¶
- Pokémon
- Pokémon by Number (Replace
1with desired Pokémon number) - Types (Replace
1with another number to retrieve different type) - Abilities (Replace
1with another number to retrieve different ability) - Magic: The Gathering
- MTG LEA Set + Extras
- MTG LEB Set + Extras
- MTG ARN Set + Extras
Protip: https://mtgjson.com lists many more Magic: The Gathering card data sets, as well as zipped versions of all sets.
GitHub API¶
Government¶
- United States Politicians
- Current US Senators
- Current US Representatives
Protip: GovTrack provides a powerful API for viewing data on Congress, roll calls, and bills.
- Department of Justice
- Blog Entries
- Press Releases
- Speeches
- Vacancy Announcements
- Scottish Parliament
- Departments
- Events
- Government Roles
- Members
Pro Tip: you can do a lot more at http://parliamentdata.ca/
- Government of India
- State Codes
- Consumer Price Index
- Agriculture Production
- Number of Districts/DRDAs/Blocks/Villages
- Gross Domestic Product at Current Prices
- Australia
- ABC Local Stations
- VIC Police Station Locations
- Museums Victoria Collections
- Spain
- Province of Madrid Municipalities
- Province of Barcelona Municipalities
- Province of Madrid Educational Centers (non-university)
Pro Tip: At https://datos.gob.es/ you can filter all kinds of public Spanish data. From universities to local and regional government institutions.
Historical Events¶
- Languages
- English
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Catalan
- Indonesian
- Romanian
- Turkish
Pro Tip: You can change
begin_dateandend_datein URL to get events in a specific interval. More options here.
HTTP¶
Pro Tip: you can do a lot more at http://httpbin.org.
NASA¶
- ISS Current Location
- How Many People Are In Space Right Now
- Earth Meteorite Landings
- Near-Earth Asteroids and Comets (Discovered By NEOWISE)
Natural Disasters¶
Nobel Prize¶
Open Source Licenses¶
- All
- Copyleft
- OSI Approved
- Redundant
- Permissive
- Obsolete
- Misc
- Popular
- Discouraged
- Non-reusable
- Special Purpose
- Retired
Become an OSI member here
Population¶
- Historical Population (Since 1960)
- China
- India
- United States
GDP¶
Pro Tip: Link to country list Here
Reddit¶
- /r/all
- /r/AskReddit
- /r/funny
- /r/pics
- /r/todayilearned
- /r/announcements
- /r/worldnews
- /r/science
- /r/IAmA
- /r/videos
- /r/gaming
- /r/linux
Pro Tip: you can append
.jsonto any subreddit url.
Travel¶
- Monthly Airline Delays by Airport, 2003-2016
- FAA Airport Status
- SFO
- LAX
- PHX
- JFK
- ATL
- MIA
- AUS
- BOS
- CLE
- ORD
- PDX
- SJC
Heads up: Only works for US airports only, not international.
TV Shows¶
- Mr. Robot (USA)
- Better Call Saul (AMC)
- Homeland (Showtime)
- Silicon Valley (HBO)
- The Walking Dead (AMC)
- South Park (Comedy Central)
- Game of Thrones (HBO)
- House of Cards (Netflix)
- The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
- Narcos (Netflix)
- Black Mirror (Netflix)
- Stranger Things (Netflix)
- Rick and Morty (Adult Swim)
- Westworld (HBO)
Pro Tip: replace the field-value for a show not listed e.g.
shows?q=show-name. More options here
- Rick and Morty
- Get all characters
- Get a single character
- Filter locations
- Get an episode
- Get multiple episodes
Pro Tip: More options at https://rickandmortyapi.com/
Movies¶
More Awesome Lists¶
- Awesome (The OG List)
- Help Wanted (Open Source projects looking for Help)
- JSON (Libraries and Resources)
- WPO (Web Performance Optimization)
- Shell (CLI Frameworks, Toolkits and Guides)
- Public APIs (JSON APIs for use in web dev, some of which require authentication)
- Public Datasets (Datasets beyond just JSON)
- Style Guides (Programming Languages, Platforms, Frameworks)
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License¶
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