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Some APIs for journalism

22nd November 2020 by Aidan O'Donnell

This month we find ourselves digging up data with the help of APIs. While there are oodles of APIs for different things (there’s a Star Wars API and an ISS API and many many others), I wondered which endpoints might be interesting for journalists. So here is a list of some of them — we’ll add to it as we find more — starting with government and moving on to business, health and … where you can charge your electric car.

* means an API key is required, ** means an API key plus extra authentication is required

Government

  • UK government APIs
  • Parliament APIs
  • UK election candidate data by Democracy Club
  • They work for you*
  • Parliamentary committees
  • Bristol Open Data hub
  • Historic Hansard

 

Covid, weather etc.

  • Covid data from UK government
  • UK Met office*
  • UK police
  • UK postcodes
  • Companies House*
  • Land registry*
  • Food hygiene
  • National Chargepoint Registry & Open Charge Map
  • Stats Wales
  • Open Corporates*
  • Facebook ad library**

 

US

  • US Federal Election Commission (FEC)*

 

Media

  • The Guardian*
  • Committee to Protect Journalists
  • NY Times*
  • Die Zeit*
  • US Press Freedom Tracker
  • Wikipedia page views
  • Twitter**

 

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