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7 | Name | URL | Free? | Notes |
8 | https://developers.facebook.com/ | yes | Great for public pages, private pages require authenticiation, pagination is a pain | |
9 | Documentation Home | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform | yes | Great for public pages, but rate limiting is complicated | |
10 | Google (Various) | https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/ | yes and no | Most are free but have costs associated with usage. Many also have rate limits |
11 | Open Street Map | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API | yes | Good alternative to google maps (which uses rate limiting) |
12 | New York Times (Various) | http://developer.nytimes.com/docs | yes and no | Good potential to scrape comments (which are needless to say produced by the lowest forms of life on the internet...) |
13 | arXiv API | http://arxiv.org/help/api/index | Free to use, no registration or API key required. | |
14 | BioMed Central API | http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/api | Free to access, no registration required. | |
15 | DVN (Dataverse Network) API for Data Sharing | http://guides.dataverse.org/en/3.6.2/dataverse-api-main.html | Metada access does not require registration. Data set downloads require a user account and agreement to terms of use; users interested in data sets should contact DVN support. Access to restricted data sets requires approval by data owners. Access to MIT Libraries-purchased data is allowed by special arrangement; please contact Social Science Data Services Librarian Katherine McNeill to inquire. | |
16 | Wikipedia | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page | Yes | |
17 | Spotify | https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/ | Yes and no | |
18 | Washington Post | http://www.washingtonpost.com/community-relations/the-washington-post-launches-api-portal-for-developers/2012/08/29/615fdbd8-f1ec-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html | Yes | |
19 | Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) API | http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/ | Free to use; API key needed | |
20 | IEEE Xplore XML Search API | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/gateway/ | Must be an IEEE customer (i.e. belong to an institution that subscribes to IEEE Xplore). Contactonlinesupport@ieee.org to receive API user guide. | |
21 | JSTOR Data for Research | http://about.jstor.org/service/data-for-research | Free to access, registration is required to obtain results. No institutional affiliation is required. | Not really an API |
22 | LexisNexis API | http://www.lexisnexis.com/webserviceskit/ | API key needed | Python plumbing available: https://github.com/ahalterman/cloacina/ |
23 | Nature Blogs API | http://www.nature.com/developers/documentation/api-references/blogs-api/ | Free to register, developer account and API key needed; see here. | |
24 | Nature OpenSearch API | http://www.nature.com/developers/documentation/api-references/opensearch-api/ | Free to register, developer account and API key needed; see here. | |
25 | NLM APIs | http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ | Varies depending on API. | |
26 | ORCID API | http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase | Two options: 1) Users can access the Public API,which only returns data marked as "public"; 2) Become an Orcid member to receive API credentials: see here. | |
27 | OSoMe | https://market.mashape.com/truthy/osome-observatory-on-social-media/overview | Return aggregated twitter data. More information http://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/ | |
28 | PLoS Article-Level Metrics API | http://api.plos.org/alm/faq/ | Free to register. API key needed. Go tohttp://api.plos.org/registration/. | |
29 | PLoS Search API | http://api.plos.org/ | Free to register. API key needed. Go tohttp://api.plos.org/registration/. | |
30 | PubMed E-Utilities API | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/ | Free to register; registration is not necessary but strongly encouraged. | |
31 | ScienceDirect | http://api.elsevier.com/documentation/SCIDIRSearchAPI.wadl | Free to register, users should contact textmine@mit.edu to receive an API key. | |
32 | Scopus | http://dev.elsevier.com/ | Free to register. | |
33 | Springer Images API | link needed | Free to register. API key needed. | |
34 | Springer Metadata API | link needed | Free to register. API key needed. | |
35 | Springer Open Access API | link needed | Free to register. API key needed. | |
36 | STAT!Ref OpenSearch API | link needed | Free to register for users at subscribing host institution. | |
37 | Truthy BotOrNot | https://github.com/truthy/botornot-python | Free to register. Twitter API key needed. | Tool for Twitter social bot detection. It computes likelihood of account being a social bot. |
38 | Web of Science Web Services | link needed | Free to register if you are affiliated with a host institution that subscribes to Web of Science. | |
39 | World Bank Indicators | http://data.worldbank.org/developers/api-overview | Free to use, no registration or API key required. | |
40 | World Bank Projects | link needed | Free to use, no registration or API key required. | |
41 | World Bank Finances | link needed | Free to use, no registration or API key required. | |
42 | UN ComTrade | link needed | Comtrade Web Services requires IP authentication, users must have site license account. However, access to metadata and data availability is not restricted. | |
43 | Last.FM API | http://www.last.fm/api | Free to register. API key needed. Probably need a Last.FM account. | |
44 | Upwork API | https://developers.upwork.com/ | Free to register. API key needed. Upwork.com account needed. | (formerly oDesk) |
45 | Yelp API | https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview | Free to register. API key needed. Yelp.com account needed. | Summary information about businesses by location |
46 | Metacritic API | https://market.mashape.com/byroredux/metacritic | Free to register. API key needed. Requests limited for non-paying users. | Critic reviews for movies, music, TV shows, and video games |
47 | UN Comtrade API | http://comtrade.un.org/data/doc/api/ | Free to use, no registration or API key required. | |
48 | Zillow API | http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm | Free to use, API key needed. | |
49 | College Scorecard | https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/documentation/ | Free | |
50 | Politiwhoops | http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/?page=2 | Deleted tweets from politicians | |
51 | Sunlight Foundation | http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/ | Free to register. API key needed. | Recently became insolvent. Project may need a new home. |
52 | GitHub | http://ghtorrent.org/ | Free - Not really an API, more of Mongo / SQL dumps (comes from GitHub streaming API which is very limited and requires API keys. See notes on the right for difference between the two sources) | Most complete source of trace activity data. |
53 | https://www.githubarchive.org/ | Free - Json dumps / Big Query access | From GHTorrent FAQ: Github Archive collects and stores the GitHub event stream. In addition to that, GHTorrent applies dependency based retrieval on all entities (e.g. commits, pull requests etc) that are linked from the events and stores the results in two databases: a raw data one (MongoDB) that stores the unprocessed responses from GitHub API and a relational one (MySQL) that stores links between the entities (e.g. commits are linked to projects). Using GHTorrent, developers can obtain an up-to-date, relational view of their project’s GitHub metadata, which can be used for answering questions regarding their project’s processes | |
54 | US Census | https://www.census.gov/developers/ | Free to register. API key needed. | |
55 | CourtListener API | https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest-info/ | ||
56 | Open Data Network | https://www.opendatanetwork.com/ | No API key needed | |
57 | Wikia | http://www.wikia.com/api/v1/ | ||
58 | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/blscrapeR/index.html | No API key needed but maximum of ~30 requests a day from my experience | sample code for Alabama's unemployment rate per month in 2020: bls_api("LASST010000000000003", startyear = 2020, endyear = 2020) |
59 | ACLED API | https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/API-User-Guide.pdf | Free, no API key, but limited to data from the last three years | |
60 | CAIDA/IODA Event and Alert APIs | https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/api | ||
61 | Reddit API | https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api | Yes | rate limits are fairly strict |
62 | Pushshift API (third-party Reddit data) | https://pushshift.io/api-parameters/ | Yes | Better way to get historical Reddit data for non-commercial purposes; Python users may want to use a wrapper library - https://psaw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ |
63 | "APIs for social scientists: A collaborative review" | https://bookdown.org/paul/apis_for_social_scientists/ | Yes | A book with tutorials of many APIs (Google, Instagram, Twitter, MediaWiki, etc.) |
64 | The Guardian | https://open-platform.theguardian.com/ | ||
65 | IMDB | https://imdb-api.com/API | Many APIs to get metadata about movies, games and television ("imdbapi" package in R) | |
66 | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rlinkedin-more-long-life-linkedin-api-network-analysis-jerad-acosta/ | |||
67 | Programmable Web | https://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory | Site that lists (now) 24,471 APIs | |
68 | Open Alex | https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/api-overview | Yes | OpenAlex is a comprehensive, freely accessible dataset cataloging scholarly works, including research articles, datasets, books, and dissertations |
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