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Handy Data Services and API's

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Curated by Richard Tomlinson

If you're in the business of data integration or app development, here are a ton of new web services and API's to take advantage of...

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  1. Fliptop - Social Intelligence

    Turn email addresses into full demographic & social profiles from Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn data. Identify overlap across social networks, brand ambassadors, and more

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  2. Klout - Welcome to the Klout Developer Network!

    Follow the steps below to start using the Klout.com API: Klout makes the following information available to or dev ecosystem: For more more info on our scoring check out "What is the Klout Score?" See below for some of the ways our partners our leveraging Klout data.

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  3. PeerIndex

    The PeerIndex API provides programmatic access to the data of the PeerIndex platform. This allows developers to integrate PeerIndex ranks into their applications. These pages provide the documentation necessary to get started with using the PeerIndex API. To get started with using the PeerIndex API follow these steps: By using the PeerIndex API you are agreeing to adhere to our terms of service.

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  4. Rapleaf

    Rapleaf wants every person to be able to have a meaningful, personalized online experience. To achieve this, Rapleaf helps leading businesses personalize customer interactions through deeper customer insight. The San Francisco based company also brings new and effective data segments to the online marketplace to help advertisers reach their ideal audience.

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  5. ifttt / Put the internet to work for you.

    Put the internet to work for you.

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  6. Facebook Graph API

    Facebook Graph API

    At Facebook's core is the social graph; people and the connections they have to everything they care about. The Graph API presents a simple, consistent view of the Facebook social graph, uniformly representing objects in the graph (e.g., people, photos, events, and pages) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags).

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  7. Geo Data and IP Intelligence | Infochimps

    Powerful geo APIs and solutions for your websites and applications help you leverage a world of data. Location matters, now more than ever, as our world becomes more mobile. Use our collection of geo-data pulled from dozens of in-demand resources including Foursquare, Wikipedia, NCDC Historical Weather, and more to enhance your apps and analytics.

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  8. Data sets, databases, statistics for free download and for sale | Infochimps

    The 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) Drilldown API provides detailed demographic data based on your geographically defined query. This geo to ACS data API performs a "drilldown" in core subject areas, providing detailed table data for each subject area. The API searches by lat/long coordinates to retrieve ACS data about a geographical area, including in-depth ...

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  9. The Google Geocoding API - Google Maps API Web Services - Google Code

    This document discusses the newest version of the Geocoding API (V3). Note that the legacy Geocoding API V2 has been deprecated. Users of that service should upgrade to this version. Looking to use this service in a JavaScript application? Check out the Geocoder class of the Google Maps API v3.

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  10. International address verification, validation, correction and deduplication with AddressDoctor

    Whether you are in the hotel, online retail or postal services sector, we have the right solution for company-wide address quality. From our Web Service to our Software Library, we have the ideal product for correct addresses worldwide. AddressDoctor corrects addresses from all over the world.

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  11. Kred | We all have Kred somewhere

    You need to be logged in to do this. You need a Twitter account to do this. Want to add Twitter account now? Extend your Free Trial a Day by publishing a link to a ReSearch.ly Result! Maximum number of extensions is 90 days.

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  12. Measure your internet marketing | Grader.com

    Free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. Website Grader has graded over 3,000,000 sites and won numerous awards. Twitter Grader is a free tool for measuring the power, authority and reach of a Twitter user. How do you stack up on Twitter? NEW!

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  13. National Digital Forecast Database XML/SOAP Service - NOAA's National Weather Service

    National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a service providing the public, government agencies, and commercial enterprises with data from the National Weather Service's (NWS) digital forecast database. This service, which is defined in a Service Description Document, provides NWS customers and partners the ability to request NDFD data over the internet and receive the information back in an XML format.

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  14. CrunchBase API

    The CrunchBase API allows developers to access data from CrunchBase for use in their own applications. The API is free to use and does not require registration. Please check out the official CrunchBase API Google Group for developer documentation, examples, news, and support.

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  15. Email Marketing and Social Media Marketing Software - iContact

    iContactPlus adds managed services and advanced solutions to iContact's email marketing platform - via dedicated account management, customized solutions and more. Learn more. iContact is your source for all things social. Save time by drafting, scheduling, posting, and tracking your social media messages, all from one convenient location. Learn more now.

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  16. bitly | shorten, share and track your links

    bitly, shorten, share and track your links

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  17. GeoIQ — GeoIQ API Overview

    GeoIQ is the engine that powers the GeoCommons Community. GeoIQ includes a full Application Programming Interface (API) that allows developers to build unique and powerful domain specific applications. The API provides capability for uploading and download data, searching for data and maps, building, embedding, and theming maps or charts, as well as general user, group, and permissions management.

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  18. Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications.

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  19. Real Estate Data, Mortgage Data, API - Zillow Developer Tools

    The new Zillow API Network turns member sites into mini real estate portals by offering fresh and provocative real estate content to keep people coming back. The Zillow API Network is a free service. Network Member requirements are summarized below; for details please see our Terms of Use.

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  20. Data.gov

    Come explore, discuss, meet others in the same field, and develop the data and apps in the community that you care about. Join in the discussions by going to communities below that interest you. First open source code released for the Open Government Platform delivered by the governments of India and the U.S.

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  21. ProgrammableWeb - Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform

    NodeSummit, a two day conference in San Francisco, will discuss the transformative role Node.js is playing in both the future of computing and today's deployed systems. It's coming up on the 24th & 25th of January. As I anticipate this meeting of the minds, I've been searching out the experts.

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  22. Mashery API Network - Welcome to the Mashery API Network!

    Sign In and discover new APIs from our open data commons of RESTful APIs or contributed from our open source I/O Docs GitHub Project API Explorer is a nifty blend of, "Let's get this party started!" and, "Slow down son, let's understand how this works." The performance and availability of an API is paramount.

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  23. U.S. City and County Web Data API | SBA.gov

    This geographic names data set provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places.

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  24. APIs and Web Services - USASearch

    USASearch's application program interfaces (APIs) provide methods for obtaining government data used by USA.gov's search tools. Use our APIs and services, which are free of charge, to build new applications and mashups using authoritative information from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies. Feedback is welcome regarding our APIs and services.

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  25. DataSift | Data On Demand

    See how different industries use social data including Brands, Retail, Finance and News. See how to construct streams for different use cases and how insight is extracted to enhance decision making. "DataSift can search for posts using the metadata contained in a tweet, making it far more powerful than the searches offered by its competitors."

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  26. Gnip is the Social Media API

    Twitter, Facebook, and dozens more sources come through Gnip's API, normalized and enriched with metadata. Gnip delivers your social data so you can grow your product. You want all of the data you want, and only the data you want. Gnip delivers your online conversation data to you efficiently and reliably, with metadata enrichments.

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  27. WiseWindow

    Big, unstructured data comes in all shapes, sizes and sources. Keeping up has become a corporate mandate versus a nice-to-have. Managing an everchanging stream of big, unstructured data can mean the difference between surfing the waves of opportunity or going down the drain.

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  28. CDYNE - Professional REST and SOAP API Provider

    Postal Address Verification
    Phone Verification
    IP2Geo
    Death Index
    Death Index
    Demographics

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  29. WebPurify™ Profanity Filter

    WebPurify is an accurate and efficient profanity filter web service that can be easily integrated into any web application. With WebPurify, the profanity list updates automatically to maximize accuracy. In addition to scanning for profanity, WebPurify allows the user to add their personal list of words to filter.

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  30. FlightAware > Commercial Services > FlightXML: Flight Tracking API

    FlightXML is exclusively usage-based with no minimum commitment. There are different classes of transactions based on the complexity of the request. The more queries that a user account makes per month, the less the per-query fee is. FlightXML's API can be accessed via REST or SOAP and the API can be accessed from any programming language that supports XML.

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  31. Market Data Feed – Financial Web Service – On-Demand

    Financial market data on-demand. Xignite financial Web services help build smarter websites and applications in minutes with zero up-front investment.

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  32. Free and Enterprise API Management and Infrastructure

    Apigee is the leading provider of API management and infrastructure tools, products, and technology platforms.

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  33. Amazon DynamoDB

    Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can launch a new Amazon DynamoDB database table, scale up or down their request capacity for the table without downtime or performance degradation, and gain visibility into resource utilization and performance metrics.

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  34. SimpleGeo

    You can get relevant contextual information about a location such as demographic data, nearest intersection, or even local weather. You can also use SimpleGeo Context for address geocoding (converting a lat/lon into a readable address). You can easily add a high quality, affordable, and reasonably-licenced database of POIs and business listings from over 40 countries.

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  35. AlchemyAPI - Register for an API Key

    AlchemyAPI requires an API key to utilize our REST web service and programmer's SDKs. To register for an AlchemyAPI key, please fill out the following form! (valid e-mail address is required for verification) Duplicate registrations or abuse of the AlchemyAPI will result in your IP range being firewalled and account banned.

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  36. Social Media Monitoring, Social Media Reporting and Sentiment Analysis | Repustate

    Sentiment, PowerPoint generation, n-gram extraction and more - Repustate's API provides you with all the tools you'll need to develop your own social media analytics solutions.

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  37. Twitter Sentiment Help

    Our approach is different from other sentiment analysis sites because: Brand management (e.g. windows 7)Polling (e.g. obama)Purchase planning (e.g. kindle) We like helping people with machine learning, natural language processing, or social media analysis questions. Feel free to contact us if you need help.

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  38. Viralheat | Developer Center

    Viralheat is a social media analytics and intelligence platform that delivers real-time data on over several different video, microblogging platforms and millions of websites. Our goal is to make data simple and understandable to empower consumers and professionals to navigate the complex world of social media.

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  39. Chatterbox

    Chatterbox Analytics provide a unique software platform which enables brands and companies to identify and engage with their community of consumers in online interactive media such as Twitter and Facebook. It does this by applying high grade analytics to large quantities of social data in order to extract the core users who drive brand conversation and opinion.

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  40. Developer - Bing

    This may be a momentary issue; try again, or check back later.

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  41. ApiDocumentation - bitly-api - bitly REST API method documentation - API Libraries and Documentation for bitly - Goog...

    bitly exposes its data via an Application Programming Interface (API), so developers can interact in a programmatic way with the bitly website. This document is the official reference for that functionality. The current API version is 3.0 Here are the topics covered in the bitly REST API documentation.

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  42. Delicious.com - Discover Yourself!

    This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time. We will version the API, but may deprecate early versions aggressively. All /v1 api's require https requests and HTTP-Auth. posts/update - Check to see when a user last posted an item.

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  43. Home - Etsy Developers

    We believe in code as craft. Join Etsy's community of makers, artists and creators and build tools that enrich the ways you can shop, sell and connect in the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace. Explore Etsy's marketplace of over 8 million listings from over 800,000 sellers. Connect buyers with items they'll love.

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  44. Add Face Recognition to Any App - Face.com API for Developers

    Starting October 1st all apps working with Facebook Connect must switch to the new OAuth flows. As a result, the face.com API will also deprecate Facebook authentication with FB sessions and support only the OAuth 2.0 access tokens. Until now your applications could authenticate with Facebook either using an OAuth access token, or a Facebook session.

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  45. Fitbit

    The Fitbit API allows developers to interact with Fitbit data in their own applications, products and services. While currently in BETA (as in... we're still working on it), the API allows for most of the read and write methods that you will need to support your application.

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  46. foursquare :: foursquare for Developers

    The foursquare API gives you access to all of the data used by the foursquare mobile applications, and, in some cases, even more. For the most recent changes to our API, check out our changelog. Use our Explorer to make sample API calls in your browser and see what they return.

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  47. Freebase

    An open source power tool to fix, discover, experiment, connect and customize your data. Learn more " Learn what an entity graph is, what kind of information it contains, and why you should add your data!

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  48. GitHub API v3

    This describes the resources that make up the official GitHub API v3. If you have any problems or requests please contact support. Note: This API is in a beta state. Breaking changes may occur. All API access is over HTTPS, and accessed from the api.github.com domain. All data is sent and received as JSON.

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  49. Develop.GitHub - Home

    This API is deprecated. Check out API v3 for the latest documentation. This site contains documentation on the major API sections and libraries you can use to make use of GitHub with your programs and scripts. Check out API v3 for the latest API documentation.

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  51. Google Web Fonts — Google Developers

    Google Web Fonts provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Web Fonts API. The Google Web Fonts API helps you add web fonts to any web page.

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  52. Overview — Gowalla API Documentation

    The Gowalla API is another way to access your Gowalla data - one that makes it easy for third-party tools to interact with the service. The API follows the REST conventions. This guide should provide everything you need to implement software that works with Gowalla.

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  53. Groupon API

    Register for a Groupon API key (client_id) to develop your own Groupon applications. Now, you can put all those great ideas for Groupon improvements, extensions, and multiple-platform interfaces to work. First, read API Terms of Service and Branding Requirements. Then, once you register, you'll find guidance and support in our API instructions and Developer Forum.

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  54. Instagram

    The first version of the Instagram API is an exciting step forward towards making it easier for users to have open access to their data. With the Instagram API, our goal is to make it easier for developers to create interesting and innovative ways to browse the ever-growing volume of photos posted to Instagram every second.

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  56. Times Developer Network - APIs

    The Times Developer Network is our API clearinghouse and community. Get the latest news about New York Times APIs, read the API documentation, browse the application gallery and connect with other developers in the forum. Before you can use New York Times APIs, you must agree to the Terms of Use.

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  57. Page Speed Online API - Google Code

    Page Speed Online API demo at Google I/O BootCamp 2011. Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now available via Page Speed Online and as an API.

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  58. PayPal Sandbox - Log In

    Use the Sandbox Test Environment to create and manage test accounts and their associated email and API credentials. You can also access valuable developer resources from Help.

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  59. Pivotal Tracker: API

    Tracker provides an API that can be used to create, retrieve, update, and delete project, story, and task resources. This interface incorporates several elements of the REST tradition, making access to these actions consistent and intuitive. In a nutshell: collections are accessed via a URL ending in a plural noun such as '/stories', and to target an individual record, append its numerical id (/stories/85).

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  60. API - GitHub

    We're happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and Greasemonkey scripts, but they have to obey some rules: In general, and especially for crawlers, make fewer than one request per two seconds You can try out the API with Apigee's API console: https://apigee.com/console/reddit An object, such as a Link, Comment, or Account.

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  61. RubyGems.org API - RubyGems Guides

    How to interact with RubyGems.org over HTTP. The API is a work in progress, and can use your help! RubyGems itself and the gemcutter gem uses the API to push gems, add owners, and more. Some API calls require an Authorization header.

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  62. Developer Force: Salesforce.com & Force.com Developer Resources

    Spring '12 Preview latest features Developer Workbooks developer tutorials Discussion Boards post your questions Latest Featured Content Discover the new Force.com developer features in the Spring '12 Release. All you need to learn about the Spring '12 Release Preview Learn how to start building and scaling your Java apps on Heroku.

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  63. Force.com Collaboration Platform - salesforce.com

    Cloud computing applications branch out well beyond CRM. Salesforce.com customers are building more apps, and building better apps. All with less cost and less hassle, thanks to the Force.com cloud computing platform. Developers everywhere are using Force.com for business application development, creating cloud computing applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM), and supply chain management (SCM).

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  64. Shopping.com Partners Resource Center - Product Documentation

    Welcome. Here you will find technical documents that help you integrate the Shopping.com API into your site. How to become a partner and get going with a Shopping.com program. The example requests in the API Use Cases documentation include API demo credentials (apiKey, trackingId) for US results.

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  66. Stack Exchange API Usage

    This is the documentation for the v1.1 read-only Stack Exchange API. If you have additional questions, or believe you have encountered a bug, don't hesitate to post a question on Stack Apps. If your application is in a runnable state (even a beta one), Stack Apps is also the place to list it.

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  67. Twilio Docs

    A set of simple tutorials with code snippets on how to use Twilio to make and receive phone calls, client calls, and SMS messages. Sample applications that cover common use cases in a variety of languages. Download, test drive, and tweak them yourself. Libraries to help you interact with the Twilio REST API and construct TwiML responses.

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  68. We /* Base font size */ html { font-size: 12px; } /* Layout width */ body.two-sidebars #header-menu, body.two-sidebar...

    We are stoked that you're interested in our API. We're in pretty early stages of our API's life and we really want to hear your feedback. Tell us in the comments of the documentation, at our google group mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/zappos_api/), email us directly api@zappos.com, or over Twitter @zappos_api.

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  70. Free and Enterprise API Management and Infrastructure

    Consoles for the APIs you love Manage➜ Scale, control and secure your API platform Learn➜ Powering the app economy

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