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Is there an API for searching the US Copyright database?

I was pointed to this StackExchange from Twitter -- I'm wondering if there's any kind of stable/published API for accessing the Copyright data exposed over here. As it is, it's not incredibly difficult to grab with curl or parse with beautifulsoup,…
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Is there an API for soft erotic pictures?

Just a wonder I had, does somebody know an API which with we can retrieve soft free-to-use erotic photos and pictures ? I have seen a lot of APIs and datasets, but never heard of this kind. Looking for answers ! Kind regards, Shade
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Pokemon Go Data API

I wanted to know if anyone knows of a website that provides free information related to Pokemon Go. I am creating an application. I'm interested in the following: Pokemon stats Pokemon location Information teams Any other values that provide the…
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Content-driven API or RSS feed

I'm looking for a few content-driven APIs and RSS feeds for a mashup website i'm building. Like Yahoo! News and Flickr, which allow you to submit a GET request and get a list of items based on a specific keyword. Like getting all news about "michael…
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Ski resort snow conditions / forecast API

I'm looking for an API for retrieving ski resort snow conditions and (hopefully) also condition forecasts. At least for ski areas in North America, but global would be good too! Specific data: Base Depth Season Total New snow overnight last 24…
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Location accuracy with 3taps API

I'm using the 3taps API and there's a field it returns called "accuracy", which the documentation describes: An integer indicating the accuracy of the supplied lat/long value. But I can't seem to find additional details. Does accuracy mean how…
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Data Sharing by Other Orgs/Businesses

I work for a nonprofit organization and we are establishing a policy platform that will house research and policy reports, data, articles, etc. What government data can we include on our platform that does not require prior permission or a formal…
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Where and how could find On this day API to get date and facts about events in science, inventions and business?

I know about Wikipedia API or other 'On This day API', but it's wide items. I need information only about events in science, inventions and business and people in these niches, and these info sould be links with calendare (date and month). I tried…
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Flipping through API pages

To Whomever It May Concern: My name is Casey Bischel, and I'm a reporter on deadline for the Belleville News-Democrat in Southwestern Illinois. I'm trying to find a record in Senator Roy Blunt's (R-Mo.) filings, but there are 43 pages of records…
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API for searching vehicles to get their characteristics and images

I want to make an application in which users can search for cars and have all the information on the car they are looking for, these different characteristics and one or two images. For this I want to use an API but I don't know which one to use. A…
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BiBTeX reference API (from DOI)

Is there a robust API available to download BiBTeX references from a DOI? E.g. a query such as https://api.somesite.net/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02060.x should return something like @article{mackay1998choice, title={Choice of basis for…
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Centralized sources of *monthly* data accessible through API (or otherwise automated query)

For teaching purposes (options for a class project), I am looking for sources of monthly data that can be programmatically accessed and downloaded into a high-level language (say R or python). I am interested in any topic, ranging from geophysical…
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API giving vessel (ship) data (not location)

seeking an api to get vessel's informations by MMSI or IMO
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Is there any API which can provide information on different animal species

I am working on a project (not a programming project) where we require a lot of information about different species such as average weight, lifespan, height, population numbers, endangered status etc. I have been looking for an API to provide this…
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Error in fda_fetch: Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429)

I am getting this error while having some tests with https://github.com/jonathanglevine/openfdashinyapps What is the limit of requests per day? If I provide account info with secret and token would I have the same limit of requests?
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