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Scott Chamberlain edited this page Mar 10, 2015 · 58 revisions

This page contains a to-do list of web APIs, services, and data sources that have not yet been wrangled into R packages or drafts under development that are not yet ready for inclusion in the Task View.

Category Service (Link to Docs) Package Under Development?
Web Analytics Alexa Web Information No
Crowdsourcing Crowdflower No
Crowdsourcing Gigwalk No
Amazon Amazon CloudWatch Coming soon here
Books LibraryThing No
Books Goodreads No
Books Project Gutenberg No
Google Google Drive No
Google Google Spreadsheets gspreadr
Google Google Calendar No
Google Cloud Print No
Government Dutch Parliamentary Data No
Government OECD No
Government U.S. Department of Labor No
Government U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey Data Coming soon here
Government U.S. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data No
Government U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data No
Government Data.gov No
Government OpenSpending API No
Government Google Civic Information API No
Government U.S. Census Bureau API No
Government Open civic data No
Government publicstuff.com No
Government FTP source for Current Population Survey No
Government Social Media Registry API No
Health U.S. Health Indicators No
Health NYU data catalog No
Machine Learning TheySay Affect API TheySay-provided code
Media Slideshare No
Publishing pdf-extract, from CrossRef No
Publishing Nature Publishing Group metadata API On list to do in rmetadata
Publishing Bibsoup API No
Publishing Geekli.st API No
Publishing Databib No
Publishing Microsoft Academic Research API No (last I heard this was being killed)
Publishing Sherpa API for looking up publisher copyright policies & self-archiving No
Publishing Worldcat API, look up similar ISSN's, maybe useful? No
Publishing Europe PubMed Central No
Science ZooBank API No
Science MarLIN BIOTIC traits database & Seabed Indicator Species Database No
Social StackExchange Archived CRAN package, stackr
Social Vimeo No
Social Instagram No
Social Reddit No
Social Goodreads No
Social Uber No
Social bitly No
Social Panoramio No
Social Singly API No
Sports xmlsoccer.com No
E-commerce Delivery.com No
E-commerce Ordrx.com No
Other Family Search No
Other App.net API No
API Protocol Microsoft OpenData API Protocol No
API Protocol SWORD Protocol No

Developed/Added to Task View

Category Service (Link to Docs) Package Under Development?
Government U.S. Energy Information Administration Github
Health Open FDA openfda
Other Star Wars API Github
Science ChemSpider API in webchem CRAN
Science Opentree of Life API Github
Science Phylopic API Github
Science UK NBN Gateway CRAN
Science Atlas of Living Australia Github
Social Google+ API CRAN
Geolocation Geolocation API Github
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