Awesome JSON Datasets 
A curated list of awesome JSON datasets that don't require authentication.
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Contents
- Bitcoin
- Climate
- Crime
- Currency
- Gaming
- GitHub API
- Government
- Historical Events
- HTTP
- NASA
- Nobel Prize
- Population
- GDP
- Travel
- TV Shows
- Movies
- Weather
- Open Source Licenses
- More Awesome Lists
- Contributing
- License
Bitcoin
Pro Tip: Check out Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations for more cryptocurrency prices.
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
Currency
Gaming
- BattleField 4 Online Players
- 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)
- Pokémon by Number (Replace
- Pokédex
- Magic: The Gathering
Protip: https://mtgjson.com lists many more Magic: The Gathering card data sets, as well as zipped versions of all sets.
GitHub API
Government
- Trade.gov
- United States Politicians
Protip: GovTrack provides a powerful API for viewing data on Congress, roll calls, and bills.
- Department of Justice
- Scottish Parliament
Pro Tip: you can do a lot more at http://parliamentdata.ca/
- EU Lobbying Transparency Register
- Government of India
- Australia
- Amsterdam
Historical Events
- Languages
Pro Tip: You can change
begin_dateandend_datein 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
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
- Total Population Today
Pro Tip: List of all Countries tracked
-
United States Population Table (Ages 0-100)
-
Historical Population (Since 1960)
GDP
Pro Tip: Link to country list Here
- /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
- Global Airfields
- Monthly Airline Delays by Airport, 2003-2016
- FAA Airport Status
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
Weather
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)
Contributing
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License
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