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