Datamob: news

Reddit Article Voting Data Donated by Users

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:57:25 -0500

Article voting data from social news site Reddit, donated by 40,000 users.

Compiled by David King of Reddit.

Reddit Article Voting Data

Sat, 15 May 2010 05:22:51 -0400

Article voting data from social news site Reddit.

"The dump is 29MB gzip compressed and contains 7,405,561 votes from 31,927 users over 2,046,401 links. It contains votes only from users with the preference "make my votes public" turned on (which is not the default)."

Compiled by David King of Reddit.

url: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/bubhl/csv_dump_of_reddit_voting_data/

Wikipedia Page Traffic Statistics

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:04:18 -0400

A 320 GB sample of the data used to power Trending Topics, containing 7 months of hourly page traffic statistics for over 2.5 million Wikipedia articles along with the associated Wikipedia content, linkgraph and metadata. Compiled by Peter Skomoroch.

All text content, statistics and link data is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

url: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2596

The New York Times Article Search API

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:12:13 -0500

The NYT Article Search API provides searchable access to nearly three million New York Times articles from 1981 to the present day. Results returned in JSON.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/article_search_api?authChecked=1

TimesPeople API

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:09:14 -0500

With the TimesPeople API, you can retrieve user data for nytimes.com, including the user profiles, activities, news feeds, and networks. Returns data in JSON or XML.

Read the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timespeople_api/

New York Times Congress API Ruby Wrapper with Congresh Shell

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:56:14 -0500

An easy Ruby wrapper for the New York Times Congress API. Also provides a command shell called Congresh for interacting with the API directly. Available for download under an MIT License.

Submitted by Patrick Ewing

url: http://github.com/hoverbird/ny-times-congress/tree/master

The New York Times Congress API

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:21:53 -0500

Get biographical information on Congresspeople dating back to 1947 and voting records dating back to 1989 in JSON and XML. Based on information from THOMAS, senate.gov, and house.gov.

Read the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/congress_api/

outside.in API

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:38:31 -0500

The Outside.in API lets you easily integrate hyperlocal news in your sites and applications by providing recent news stories and blog posts for any neighborhood, ZIP code, city, or state in the United States in JSON.

url: http://developers.outside.in

The New York Times Campaign Finance API

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:07:24 -0400

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.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/campaign_finance_api

Legistalker

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:08:51 -0400

Legistalker tracks the online activity of U.S. Congress members, including official activity in the Congressional record (via the Capitol Words API), mentions in the news and on Twitter, and YouTube video postings.

NYT Trender

Sun, 10 May 2009 17:55:38 -0400

Compare any two terms by number of mentions in the New York Times in 2008. By Derek Gottfrid.

url: http://tyn-search.appspot.com/

Suburbified

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:30:25 -0500

Suburbified plots 10 years' worth of New York Times "Living In" columns about New York-area suburbs on an Open Street Map.

url: http://www.suburbified.com/

DIYtraffic Bot

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:53:24 -0500

The DIYtraffic Bot is a Java app that can be set up to create a Twitter bot that tweets alerts for any U.S. city from the Yahoo! Traffic API. The bot can also direct message Twitter users traffic updates for specific streets or highways in response to direct message queries.

Read the announcement on DIYcity for more information and check out the DIYtraffic Bots for San Francisco, Chicago and Portland.

url: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_-_Instructions_for_Installation

TimesPeople Google Gadget

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:13:13 -0500

The TimesPeople Google Gadget lets you see what articles and blog posts nytimes.com users are recommending and commenting on from your Gmail account. By Michael Donohoe.

url: http://www.ifelse.org/projects/gadgets/timespeople/index.html

Represent

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:04:57 -0500

Find your elected representatives and get news about them. Available in New York City only.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/

NPR Road Trip

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:39 -0500

Locate National Public Radio (NPR) radio stations along any driving route in the United States.

url: http://www.nprroadtrip.com/

EveryBlock

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:59 -0400

Comprehensive geographic news filter, currently available for Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Francisco.

url: http://www.everyblock.com/