World Bank Alternatives (2025)

Access the world's Open Access research papers. A unique and free API providing real-time machine access to metadata and full texts of research papers in CORE. One API for accessing data across all data providers. Perfect for developing and running innovative applications that need global access to research papers.

Access current weather data for any location including over 200,000 cities. You can get Current Weather Data of your city, or sort it a little to hourly forecast for next 4 days. One call api, that lets you shift, sort and filter days. Also allows you to perform bulk downloading.

Earthquakes data real-time. This is an implementation of the FDSN Event Web Service Specification, and allows custom searches for earthquake information using a variety of parameters.

protocols.io is the #1 open access repository for science methods. The leading platform for data management and protocol sharing. Store, organize, modify, and publish your work all in one place.

A free, open, dataset about research and scholarly activities. SHARE is a higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. To fulfill this mission SHARE is building a free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.

Access millions of museum specimens from organizations around the world. The API gives you Bio records according to available records in the directory. Provides you with the media, versioning, limiting, sorting of the queries.

Multiple astronomy data sources and Unified REST APIs for world-wide astronomy data. API lets you observe activities in the sky, get archives data, sort, filter, login ,callibrate and collaborate with scientists. Super useful and WWW is their customer.

The OSF serves as a repository and archive for study designs, materials, data, manuscripts, or anything else associated with your research during the research process. Every project and file on the OSF has a permanent unique identifier, and every registration (a permanent, time-stamped version of your projects and files) can be assigned a DOI. You can use the OSF to measure your impact by monitoring the traffic to projects and files you make public. With the OSF you have full control of what parts of your research are public and what remains private.

Friendly way of accessing various aurora hunting data: current space weather conditions, weather, skycams, satellite images, and archived information from the past 15 years.

We offer a free API that provides sunset and sunrise times for a given latitude and longitude. Please note that attribution is required if you use our API. Ours is a very simple REST api, you only have to do a GET request to https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json.

NASA data. Welcome to the NASA API portal. The objective of this site is to make NASA data, including imagery, eminently accessible to application developers. The api.nasa.gov catalog is growing.

The MPDS application programming interface (API) presents the materials data of the PAULING FILE database online in the machine-readable formats, suitable for automated processing. The intended audience is software engineers and data scientists. The API is available by a subscription (SLA). To start using the API the reader needs a valid API key from the MPDS account. We encourage to contact us for opening such the account.