UN Data API

An unofficial API version of the great data made available by the United Nations on the UNDATA site.

Description

An unofficial API version of the great data made available by the United Nations on the UNDATA site. The aim is to make this data accessible and reusable in a variety of ways so it can be easily mashed up and recombined into new applications or analysis.

Specifications

The service uses a straightforward REST API hosted on Heroku’s MongoHQ and makes UNDATA sets easily queryable from any application. Currently we have 108 datasets from the World Health Organization online and we’ll add more over time.

Happy people

The service is 100% free to use and publicly accessible – you just need to sign up for an account to generate access keys. Standard accounts have some limits on usage but if you need more just contact us and we’ll arrange a higher limit.

*Checkout the official UNDATA SOAP API using the SDMX standard. http://data.un.org/Host.aspx? Content=API

The Plan


Basic
Features
  • All UN Data
Limits
  • 5000 hits per day
Sign Up

Run your requests

Roadmap

The first data sets to go live are ALL of the World Health Organization datasets with a very simple REST interface and chunks of JSON or xml from the dataset back.

However, we hope to expand this over time with:

  • More organizations.
  • Outputs compatible with the Linked Data Initiative.
Feedback

If you have ideas on new data you’d like to see here or features to include in the API let us know and we’ll keep trying to make it better – let us know by email.

Original Website

https://old-undata.3scale.net