Free or low-cost tv schedule api. Currently one has to pay about $500 per market/region per month.
Not exactly an API (just data), but it's cheap (USD20/year):
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#52An open Linkedin API.
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#53- US & State Government tax information. The tax code is amazingly complex. It would be good if you could figure out the tax implications of various events. Better if they simplified the tax code to where this was possible. Moreover, data.gov so far is a disappointment. Maybe they'll improve it. But I'd love to dig in to purchasing and personnel costs for every branch of government. - Good stock market historical tic…
"My dream: The big scientific journals would require everyone publishing a paper to upload all relevant datasets to a central repository which could be queried."
I work on a site that's trying to do that for the learning sciences.
http://pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu/
Most of the data so far is from various studies in the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, because the head of the PSLC can tell the researchers to put their data in there, but we'd like to convince others to share, too.
I also happen to be working on a web services API to this data at work right now.
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#54Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
Realtime (i.e. in game stats) or just up to date player, team, league stats. I think the leagues fight hard to disallow this although they have recently lost a couple high profile lawsuits.
In 2007, MLB even tried to claim copyright on player's names and statistics.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/06/mlb-tries-to...
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#55Hulu, Clicker, Mixcloud, Comcast's "TV Everywhere", Spotify, Mog, iTunes store, Amazon VOD & mp3, etc.
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#56- US & State Government tax information. The tax code is amazingly complex. It would be good if you could figure out the tax implications of various events. Better if they simplified the tax code to where this was possible. Moreover, data.gov so far is a disappointment. Maybe they'll improve it. But I'd love to dig in to purchasing and personnel costs for every branch of government. - Good stock market historical tic…
"Google used to have a search API and it had horrible terms. Then they decommissioned it"
It always surprises me when people say this. Apparently it's not widely known that Google do make their search API available: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje
(Before anyone says "that's just the AJAX API", please READ THE LINK, and scroll down to see the Java & PHP samples)
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#57Free or low-cost tv schedule api. Currently one has to pay about $500 per market/region per month.
Check out http://www.cruxle.com. It recommends movies and TV shows available on TV you might love to watch. We are planning to open our TV guide recommendations via XML-based API. Please send us an email at info@cruxle.com, if you would like to access our APIs.
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#58A OCR API. The Google Docs OCR API is a good start, but it's tied pretty closely to GDocs. I'd like to post an image and get back text.
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#59Generally: I wish practically everything had an open API. It's incredible what people can build when they have decent access to an API.
Specifically:
TuneCore, as it would make my startup idea a whole lot easier.
School registrations. I really wish there was some standardized API for universities. That'd make it possible to plug in the classes you want to take along with when you want to take them and get back a personalized schedule. As it is now (at least for my school), you pretty much have to write down on paper the classes you want to take along with when they're available and do it all yourself. I'd prefer something like this be standardized so one could make one website that would serve all universities and their students.
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#60Generally: I wish practically everything had an open API. It's incredible what people can build when they have decent access to an API. Specifically: TuneCore, as it would make my startup idea a whole lot easier. School registrations. I really wish there was some standardized API for universities. That'd make it possible to plug in the classes you want to take along with when you want to take them and get back a pers…
+1 for school registrations. My school only provides READ access to the courses catalog but not WRITE access to actually register courses.
http://courses.illinois.edu/cis/2010/spring/schedule/index.h... http://courses.illinois.edu/cis/2010/spring/schedule/index.x...
I really wish that they will provide one in future.