Application Programming Interface. An interface designed to be queried programmatically.
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The Healthplan finder API stopped responding, where can I get support or more information?
The API at http://finder.healthcare.gov/services/ has stopped responding. Previously it was returning the stated data very well. Where can I get support or more information about what's going on?
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Are there any open datasets for sport statistics?
I'm mainly interested in soccer related statistics. There are quite a few different API's relating to soccer, but most of them are commercial and far, far out of my price range. I've looked at ...
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Individual bicycle data within a bike hire scheme
Does anyone know of a bicycle hire scheme anywhere in the world that provides individual bicycle data within its API?
For example, the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London provides data on each bike ...
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What sources exist for sales tax information
What open data sources are available to determine the appropriate sales tax at the state and local levels?
For example, assume that an three items are sold from a retailer to the following ...
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Which real-time open data APIs do you know?
As far as I can tell open data is mostly offered as some kind of file download, that contains the complete data set. I'm aware of some Web services, e. g. World Bank API, that allow you to feed a ...
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Should data APIs require registration and API keys?
When publishing a data API, there seems to be a conflict between requiring a user to sign-up for an API key and the principal of open access. What is best practice in publishing an open data API ...
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Open database of domain registration information?
Is there a central database of all domain registration information, or a way to access an aggregate of that data?
I know there are already tools to help you access the registration information of a ...
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Which, if any, U.S. Federal Government agencies offer a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for their APIs?
Are there any examples of U.S. Federal Government agencies offering service level agreements (SLAs) for their APIs?
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Open Address Data for Restaurants
I am looking for any open data set that maintains restaurants (or places in general) with their address. If a place closes I am hoping this database will reflect that quickly.
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Open database APIs for journal article metadata
Are there any openly-accessible databases for searching journal article metadata? I’m particularly looking for abstracts, citation data, and subjects/tags/fields-of-study information. I’m looking for ...
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US Government API Usage
I'm unable to find very much data about the usage of APIs from United States federal agencies. Which APIs that have been released have the highest traffic number in terms of queries, and/or ...
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Is there a list, database or API that contains the all the product Information in India
I'm looking for a database for accessing the product information which are available in India. The List of UPC's and ISBN's or All the Information of a Product
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Self-documenting RESTful APIs: examples with WADL?
One of the hurdles in taking advantage of a data API, particularly the ever more popular RESTful APIs, is either in implementing or finding an existing implementation of the API in one's programming ...
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What are the standards for data in terms of Open APIs?
Update: It appears there have been two directions in terms of answering this question. Data interchange (ex. HTTP, FTP, P2P), and data formatting (ex. JSON, XML, CSV). My original question was about ...
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Is there a list, database or API that contains the URLs for United States city and town websites?
I'm looking for a database of URLs for every official city and town website. Ideally this list would be up to date and maintained. Freebase has some of the results and we have every city and town in ...
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What would be particularly useful basic APIs for the US Federal Government to offer?
There are already certain basic APIs for census tracts, school districts, energy costs, a range of geo data, zip codes, etc.
What I'm wondering is what would be other fundamental web services that ...
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Are there best practices that government API producers should follow more so than non-government API producers?
Clearly, government agencies should default to observing the broader trends of API producers but are there particular best practices that a government API should follow?
(Disclaimer - I am the Sr. ...
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Is there an exoplanet API or dataset?
I am looking for an API or dataset that has information about the known exoplanets. The properties of this dataset would include things like mass, orbital period, atmosphere, temperature, etc.
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Is there a source for the various Scrabble dictionaries?
There are some individually maintained lists for some Scrabble dictionaries, and some websites for looking up words in those dictionaries:
SOWPODS list: ...
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Open API for nutritional information and/or food barcodes?
I've seen many applications (mobile and web) that use a database of nutritional information and barcodes to track daily food consumption. Smartphones have the ability to scan barcodes, and many mobile ...
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Is there an open API for world terrain data?
I'm looking for open-source or publicly-available terrain data, for instance heightmaps or DEMs -- ideally GeoTIFFS by way of an easy-to-use API. For instance: you pass a pair of lat/longs and maybe a ...
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API for information about Brazilian cities/states
I can already find data about Brazilian cities/states (e.g. population, localization, crime rates etc...), on some websites such as the government's open data portal and census data (which ...
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What is the most comprehensive resource for querying french and english books having an ISBN code?
I would like to know if a repository of all known ISBN exists; either a worldwide database, or per country.
If there is no such downloadable database, among all the available API's for querying ...
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Is there an official/complete list of all US government agency “developers' pages”?
The FCC's developers page happens to have a sidebar linking to many other US government agencies' developers pages, APIs, etc. It's a handy list, but I assume the FCC hosts it only out of the goodness ...
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U.S. City and County Web Data (API)
Are there any websites that have basic City and County information for the U.S.?
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Is there a list of all US Government agencies and sub agencies and is it available via API?
Specifically I'm looking for:
Agency canonical names
Agency abbreviature/acronym
Hierarchy of agencies e.g. Census Bureau is
part of Department of Commerce
Agency logos
Website/social media accounts
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