Awesome JSON Datasets

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

Contents

• Bitcoin
• Cars
• Climate
• Crime
• Currency
• Gaming
• GitHub API
• Government
• Historical Events
• HTTP
• Media
• NASA
• Nobel Prize
• Population
• GDP (current US$)
• Reddit
• Travel
• TV Shows
• Movies
• Weather
• Open Source Licenses
• More Awesome Lists
• Contributing
• License

Bitcoin

• Latest Block
• Unconfirmed Transactions

Pro Tip: Check out Blockchain Data API for more options.

Cars

• All Makes
• Makes Sold in USA
  • 1940
  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1980
  • 1990
  • 2000
  • 2010

Pro Tip: replace the field-value for a year not listed e.g. ?&cmd=getMakes&year=1969. You can also change the country e.g. sold_in_uk=1, sold_in_de=1, etc.

• Models
  • Ford
  • GMC
  • Acura
  • Cadillac
  • Ferrari
  • Jaguar
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • BMW
  • Nissan
  • Porsche
  • Subaru
  • Toyota

Pro Tip: replace the field-value for a model not listed e.g. make=CarCompany.

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)
• Drought Severity Index (Palmer for the Contiguous US, 1895-2016)

Crime

• DATA.POLICE.UK
  • Crimes at Location
  • Street Crime Dates
  • Neighbourhoods
  • List of Forces
• DATA.GOV
  • Chicago (historical data since 2001)

Currency

• Latest Foreign Exchange Rates
  • USD
  • AUD
  • GBP
  • HKD
  • HRK
  • HUF
  • JPY
  • ZAR
  • EUR
• Compare Foreign Exchange Rates (Replace USD,GBP with symbols you want to compare.)
• Historical Foreign Exchange Rates (Replace 2000-01-03 with another date.)
• VAT rates for EU

Gaming

• BattleField 4 Online Players
• 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

• Trade.gov
  • Market Research Library
  • Consolidated Screening Lists
  • Tariff Rates
  • Business Service Providers
  • ITA Taxonomies
  • U.S. Chronic Disease Indicators
  • Consumer Complaint Database
  • Healthcare Associated Infections - Hospital
• DATA.CA.GOV
• DATA.NY.GOV
  • Cash 4 Life Winning Lottery Numbers
  • Retail Food Stores
  • Child Care Programs
  • Mental Health Programs
  • Jobs by Industry
  • Mega Millions Lottery Winning Numbers
  • Powerball Lottery Winning Numbers
  • Social Media Usage
• United States Congress
  • Current US Senators
  • Current US Representatives
  • Bills Introduced in the 114th Congress (2015-2017)

Protip: use offset=1000 to view the next 1000 bills. GovTrack provides a powerful API for viewing data on Congress, roll calls, and bills.

• Department of Justice
  • Blog Entries
  • Press Releases
  • Speeches
  • Vacancy Announcements
• Department of Labor
  • Total Private Average Weekly Hours of All Employees
  • Total Private Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees
• Scottish Parliament
  • Departments
  • Events
  • Government Roles
  • Members

Pro Tip: you can do a lot more at http://parliamentdata.ca/

• EU Lobbying Transparency Register
  • Country
  • Entity
  • Representative
  • Person
  • Category
  • Financial
  • Accreditation
• Government of India
  • State Codes
  • Consumer Price Index
  • PMJDY Monthly Report
  • Agriculture Production
  • Number of Districts/DRDAs/Blocks/Villages
  • Gross Domestic Product at Current Prices
• Australia
  • ABC Local Stations
  • Ballarat BBQ's
  • Boat Ramps in the Gold Coast Area
  • Indigenous Land Use Agreements (Registered or in Notification)
  • NSW State Electoral Boundaries - PSMA Administrative Boundaries
  • VIC Police Station Locations
• Amsterdam
  • Shops
  • Food and Drinks
  • Museums and Galleries
• Michigan
  • Fish
  • State Facts
  • Baby Names

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.

Media

• Giphy
  • Cats
  • Dogs
  • Surprised
  • Confused
  • Angry
  • Happy
  • Crazy
  • Make it Rain

Pro Tip: replace the q field-value for a query not listed e.g. q=cartman+brah.

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

• Total Population Today
  • Earth
  • Brazil
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kenya
  • Mexico
  • Poland
  • India
  • United States

Pro Tip: List of all Countries tracked

• United States Population Table (Ages 0-100)

  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1980
  • 1990
  • 2000
  • 2010

• Historical Population (Since 1960)

  • China
  • India

Heads up: Use cURL to view raw JSON e.g.: $ curl -s http://api.population.io/1.0/countries | python -m json.tool

GDP (current US$)

• 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

• Global Airfields
• 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

Movies

• Showtime
  • Current Movies in Thailand
  • Movie Theaters in Thailand

Weather

• Los Angeles
• Chicago
• New York
• Miami
• London
• Paris
• Berlin
• Moscow
• Jerusalem
• Tokyo
• Sydney
• Buenos Aires

Pro Tip: generate URLs for any location at Yahoo Weather API

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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