Hackalist is a database of hackathons that has the most up to date information for all your hackathon needs. Visit our website to view the live site.

Feel free to submit Pull Requests and/or Issues.

If you have any questions or concerns, please tweet @KevinPayravi. Authorship

Site initiated by Kevin Payravi. Special thanks to:

• Aaroh Mankad for implementing automated AngularJS parsing.
• Harrison Shoebridge for improving JavaScript and automated page generation.
• Rodrigo Argumedo for continued support.
• All others who have submitted hackathon listings.

Licensing

Site code is licensed under the MIT license.

Hackalist also utilizses some design/style elements from Skeleton, a project by Dave Gamache that is also licensed under the MIT license.

Projects Using Hackalist's API

• Mapathon - Mapping Hackathons by Michael Ding
• CoderCalendar, an Android app, Chrome extension, and Firefox add-on that lists upcoming coding contests and allows users to easily add them to their Google Calendar.
• HackathonHowFar, a small Python script that outputs distance + driving time to a currently available hackathon from a given origin location.

API

The Hackalist API is split into separate JSON files for each month of each year, following the file pattern /api/1.0/YEAR/MONTH.json.

The API is public, so feel free to use it for your own projects. As always, a link back to Hackalist is appreciated.

Contributing

Hackathon listings are sorted chronology based on the starting date of the hackathon. If two hackathons start on the same day, they are sorted alphabetically.

Please ensure your JSON syntax is correct before submitting. An easy way to check your JSON synax is through JSONLint.

JSON Parameters

• title: Name of hackathon
• url: Official URL
• startDate: Starting date, formatted as Month Day (e.g. August 30)
• endDate: End date, formatted as Month Day (e.g. August 30)
• year: Year
• city: City hackathon is occuring in, formatted as City, State/Province Abbreviation, Country (e.g. Miami, FL, United States). If a hackathon has multiple locations (e.g. CodeDay), list as Various Locations (Country), replacing Country with a country name (or Worldwide).
• host: The host (university, company, etc.)
• length: Length in hours
• size: Number of attendees; if not known, specify unknown
• travel: Is travel reimbursed, in either part or full? yes | no | unknown
• prize: Are prizes awarded to winners? yes | no | unknown
• highSchoolers: Are high schoolers allowed to apply or attend? yes | no | unknown
• cost: Cost of the event free | $10 | €10 | etc.
• facebookURL: URL to official Facebook profile
• twitterURL: URL to official Twitter profile
• googlePlusURL: URL to official Google+ profile
• notes: Any additional notes (limits to who can attend, special requirements, etc.)