# Awesome JSON Datasets

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

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## Contents

- Bitcoin
- Climate
- Crime
- Currency
- Food
- Gaming
- GitHub API
- Government
- Historical Events
- HTTP
- NASA
- Nobel Prize
- Population
- GDP
- Reddit
- Travel
- TV Shows
- Movies
- Open Source Licenses
- More Awesome Lists
- Contributing
- License

## Bitcoin

- Latest Block
- Unconfirmed Transactions

> 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)

## 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

## Food

- FDA product recalls
- Open Food Facts

## 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.

## 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

- 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/

## Movies

- American movies scraped from Wikipedia
- Showtime
  - Current Movies in Thailand
  - Movie Theaters in Thailand

## 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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