Is there any publicly accessible JSON data source to test with real world data? [closed]

Answer 1

The Tumbler V2 API provides a pure JSON response but requires jumping through a few hoops:

1. Register an application
2. Get your "OAuth Consumer Key" which you'll find when editing your application from the apps page
3. Use any of the methods that only require an API Key for authentication as this can be passed in the URL, e.g. posts
4. Enjoy your JSON response!

Example URL: http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/puppygifs.tumblr.com/posts/photo?api_key=YOUR_KEY_HERE

Result showing tree structure in Fiddler:

Answer 2

Found one from Flickr that doesn't need registration / api.

Basic sample, Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Braulio/vDr36/

More info: post

Pasted sample

HTML

<div id="images">

</div>

Javascript

// Querystring, "tags" search term, comma delimited
var query = "http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=soccer&format=json&jsoncallback=?";


// This function is called once the call is satisfied
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13854250/understanding-cross-domain-xhr-and-xml-data
var mycallback = function (data) {

    // Start putting together the HTML string
    var htmlString = "";

    // Now start cycling through our array of Flickr photo details
    $.each(data.items, function(i,item){

        // I only want the ickle square thumbnails
        var sourceSquare = (item.media.m).replace("_m.jpg", "_s.jpg");

        // Here's where we piece together the HTML
        htmlString += '<li><a href="' + item.link + '" target="_blank">';
        htmlString += '<img title="' + item.title + '" src="' + sourceSquare;
        htmlString += '" alt="'; htmlString += item.title + '" />';
        htmlString += '</a></li>';

    });

    // Pop our HTML in the #images DIV
    $('#images').html(htmlString);
};


// Ajax call to retrieve data
$.getJSON(query, mycallback);

Another very interesting is Star Wars Rest API:

https://swapi.co/

Answer 3

Tumblr has a public API that provides JSON. You can get a dump of posts using a simple url like http://puppygifs.tumblr.com/api/read/json.

Answer 4

Twitter has a public API which returns JSON, for example -

A GET request to:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=mralexgray&count=1,

EDIT: Removed due to twitter restricting their API with OAUTH requirements...

{"errors": [{"message": "The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview.", "code": 68}]}

Replacing it with a simple example of the Github API - that returns a tree, of in this case, my repositories...

https://api.github.com/users/mralexgray/repos

I won't include the output, as it's long.. (returns 30 repos at a time) ... But here is proof of it's tree-ed-ness.

Answer 5

JSON Test has some

try its free and has other features too.

http://www.jsontest.com/