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• U.S. Lobbying Databases

  Offsite — Lobbyist information, made available by the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). XML format.

• LOUIS API

  Offsite — Web framework for accessing the 300,000 U.S. federal government documents that comprise the LOUIS database. The documents are scraped daily from the Government Printing Office website, GPOAccess.gov.

• MAPLight Candidates Financial Summary API

  Offsite — Query U.S. House and Senate candidate funding data from MAPLight.org. See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research.

• MAPLight Bill Positions API

  Offsite — Query MAPLight.org’s original research on supporting and opposing interests for U.S. legislative bills. Returns results in JSON or XML. See also: MAPLight Candidates Financial Summary API and MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research.

• MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill

  Offsite — The 400+ interest categories used by MAPLight.org, the National Institute on Money in State Politics (Follow the Money) and the Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets) to categorize political campaign contributions. Bill research used by MAPLight. Originally contributed by MAPLight to Watchdog.net. Microsoft Excel and CSV formats. See also: MAPLight API.

• MassGIS

  Offsite — Geographic and environmental data available for download from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Geographic Information System. Base map data includes roads, topographic features, and political boundaries. Other data includes crime and demographic data sliced geographically. MassGIS distributes vector data in Shapefile format and raster (image) data in TIFF, MrSID, JPEG ...

• Mobile Commons Legislative Lookup API

  Offsite — Database that matches latitude and longtitude with the U.S. congressional and state legislators for that location. Available as an API and as a standalone Rails application for download under an MIT License. By Mobile Commons.

• USGS Mineral Resources Data

  Offsite — Collection of downloadable datasets on mineral resources in the U.S.

• National Bridge Inventory Data

  Offsite — Data on 600,000 U.S. bridges. ASCII text.

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

  Offsite — Download zipped CSVs of admission and enrollment information about all U.S. colleges, including cost of attendance and room and board charges; selectivity, average SAT/ACT scores, and other admissions considerations; enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by gender, ethnicity, and age; degrees conferred by program and award level; number of students receiving ...

• National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehou

  Offsite — Downloadable data on U.S. health topics including vital statistics, aging, immunization, health care and nutrition.

• Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) Data

  Offsite — Data on tax-delinquent properties and demographic information in Los Angeles, offered to help prevent housing conditions from deteriorating.

• NPR API

  Offsite — Query an archive of National Public Radio content dating back to 1995. Returns results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and custom NPRML formats. See the announcement on NPR.org for more information.

• New York City Property Sales

  Offsite — Property sales reported by the New York City Department of Finance. Data is updated monthly and published in Microsoft Excel format.

• New York City Subway Ridership, 1905-2006

  Offsite — Download a spreadsheet containing the annual registrations, or recorded entries, at each station in the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority subway system from 1905-2006. Posted by Michael Frumin.

• The New York Times Campaign Finance API

  Offsite — Retrieve political campaign contribution and expenditure data based on United States Federal Election Commission filings. Data available in JSON, XML or serialized PHP. Registration required. See the announcement on Open for more information.

• OpenCongress API

  Offsite — Programmatic access to all the data on OpenCongress, from official bill information to user-generated votes on bills. API key required.

• The New York State Senate Open Legislation Service

  Offsite — Browse, search and download legislative information from the New York State Senate. Structured legislative information available in XML, CSV and JSON formats. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

• Open Secrets

  Offsite — Data on money in U.S. politics, collected and published by the Center for Responsive Politics. See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

• outside.in API

  Offsite — The outside.in API provides news articles, blog posts, tweets and more within 1,000 feet of any latitude and longitude in the United States in XML or JSON format. Licensed under a simple Terms of Service.