Awesome JSON Datasets – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of awesome JSON datasets that don’t require authentication.

Contents

• Climate
• Crime
• Currency
• Gaming
• GitHub API
• Government
• Historical Events
• HTTP
• NASA
• Nobel Prize
• Population
• GDP
• Reddit
• Travel
• Open Source Licenses
• More Awesome Lists

Climate

• Global Temperature Anomaly (1880-2015 vs. 1901-2000 Average)
• 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

• Exchange Rate API
  • USD
  • GBP

Gaming

• Pokémon
  • Pokémon by Number (Replace 1 with desired Pokémon number)
  • Types (Replace 1 with another number to retrieve different type)
  • Abilities (Replace 1 with another number to retrieve different ability)
• Pokédex
• 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.

• Steam Player Number

GitHub API

• Emojis
• Events
• Gists
• Meta

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_date and end_date in URL to get events in a specific interval. More options here.

HTTP

• IP
• user-agent
• headers
• GET
• gzip
• deflate
• response-headers
• cookies
• stream
• delay
• cache (60 === 60 seconds)

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

• Earthquakes

Nobel Prize

• Prize
• Laureate
• Country

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

• USA
• China
• India

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 .json to 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.

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/

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