University of Oslo Alternatives (2025)

Access to Open Data from Governments, Non-profits and NGOs around the world

Large datasets repository of African open data

Broadest collection of public data. Retrieve detailed information about a business using its name, location or an associated person. Or you can view screen alerts to make sure named individuals and companies are not sanctioned entities.

French Government Open Data. API provides statistics shared by france to list open cases, covid cases, general news, law, agricultural news, cultural events, education inside France and across Europe and tourism.

Open data about nobel prizes and events

The Artsy Public API provides access to images of historic artwork and related information on artsy.net for educational and other non-commercial purposes. In comparison to the set of data on artsy.net this API has limited scope. For example, only public domain works are currently accessible.

Taiwan Government Open Data. You can view information regarding health cases, child births, graduates, police, job, law, economy, tourism, matrimonial services, the road signs, health, homes, businesses, charity works and major announcements of the government.

Asterank.com API. This API is a simple way to quickly apply constraints to a set of over 600,000 asteroids. Users can construct queries with specific constraints across all data attributes recorded by the MPC. Information is updated nightly from the MPC's MPCORB.dat dataset. The database queries are based on mongodb's json-formatted 'find' operation.

We've designed our APIs to use open standards so developers can leverage off-the-shelf libraries. We aim to provide APIs that are as simple as possible yet still open the door to great possibilities.

Get access to a database of mugshots and arrest data sourced from many counties across the U.S. JailBase.com has an easy to use web api so your website or application can access our extensive county jail inmate data. Using the API, you can search for arrested and booked individuals in county jails. The web service uses a REST interface to make calls and returns results in JSON (JSONP is also supported). Calls to the webservice do not require a developer key, however they are rate limited.

Sepomex is a REST API that maps all the data from the current zip codes in Mexico. You can get the CSV or Excel files from the official site. We build this API in order to provide a way to developers query the zip codes, states and municipalities across the country.

Star Wars API with tons of information on the Star Wars universe. API lists you the planets, spaceships, vehicles, people, films and species. Form all Sever Star War films. Also has the "force awakens" data. You get hair color, skin color and eye color of the mentioned characters.