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Compare golf carts on top speed, range, battery, power, and price across major manufacturers.

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43 sources

JSONPlaceholder users

JSONPlaceholder

Ready connector

Ten fake user profiles — a safe way to try imports and pulls.

Coverage
Synthetic
Access
Keyless JSON API

Rights: Synthetic demonstration data; not for factual decisions.

Credit: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com · free fake API

Join using: username, email

Configure & previewNo key required
Ready connector

Top coins by market cap with price, volume, and supply columns.

Coverage
Global
Access
JSON REST API

Rights: Attribution and API-plan terms apply.

Credit: CoinGecko free API · attribution required

Join using: asset id, symbol

Configure & previewNo key required
Ready connector

Coin tickers with rank, supply, and beta — no key required.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless JSON REST API

Rights: API-plan and redistribution terms require review.

Credit: api.coinpaprika.com · free tier

Join using: asset id, symbol

Configure & previewNo key required
Ready connector

US federal agencies with budgetary resources and spend shares.

Coverage
United States
Access
Keyless JSON REST API

Rights: U.S. federal government spending data; preserve source attribution.

Credit: api.usaspending.gov · public domain

Join using: toptier_code, agency abbreviation

Configure & previewNo key required
GovInfo collections

U.S. Government Publishing Office

Ready connector

US Government Publishing Office collections with package counts.

Coverage
United States
Access
JSON REST API with api.data.gov key

Rights: Collection contents may carry document-specific rights or notices.

Credit: api.govinfo.gov (usgpo) · api.data.gov key

Join using: collection_code

Configure & previewFree key required
NHTSA vPIC models

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Ready connector

US-market vehicle models for a make and model year — free, keyless, public domain. Seeds the item list; specs come from enrichment.

Coverage
United States market
Access
Keyless JSON REST API

Rights: U.S. government vehicle reference data; retain NHTSA attribution.

Credit: vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov · NHTSA public API

Join using: make name, model name, model year

Configure & previewNo key required
Data.gov catalog

U.S. General Services Administration

Discovery lead

Discovery metadata and resource links for U.S. government datasets.

Coverage
United States; varies by dataset
Access
Data.gov JSON catalog search and linked resources

Rights: The catalog is metadata; each linked dataset and distribution must be reviewed separately.

Credit: Data.gov and the publishing agency

Join using: dataset identifier, publisher-specific identifiers

Open sourceNo key required
Socrata Open Data Network

Participating governments and organizations

Discovery lead

Searchable city, county, state, nonprofit, and agency open-data catalogs.

Coverage
Participating jurisdictions worldwide
Access
Discovery API and SODA dataset APIs

Rights: Terms, attribution, and reuse rights belong to each publishing portal and dataset.

Credit: Publishing portal and dataset owner

Join using: dataset identifier, FIPS, agency-specific identifiers

Open sourceNo key required
U.S. Census Data API

U.S. Census Bureau

Ready connector

Population, housing, demographic, business, trade, and economic datasets.

Coverage
United States and supported international datasets
Access
Dataset-specific REST API

Rights: Review Census terms and attribution requirements for the selected dataset and geography.

Credit: U.S. Census Bureau

Join using: FIPS, NAICS, Census geography, vintage

Configure & previewFree key required
Ready connector

Long-running country and regional indicators across development, finance, health, and infrastructure.

Coverage
Global countries and regions
Access
Keyless Indicators API

Rights: Indicator metadata identifies source organizations; downstream terms may vary by series.

Credit: World Bank and the indicator's source organization

Join using: ISO country code, indicator code, year

Configure & previewNo key required
OpenAlex

OurResearch

Ready connector

Scholarly works, authors, institutions, topics, sources, and funders.

Coverage
Global
Access
REST API and data snapshot

Rights: Review API terms and the rights of linked works; bibliographic metadata is not permission to redistribute full text.

Credit: OpenAlex and underlying scholarly sources

Join using: OpenAlex ID, DOI, ORCID, ROR

Configure & previewNo key required
FRED API

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Discovery lead

Economic time series and historical vintages from U.S. and international source agencies.

Coverage
United States and international
Access
REST API with a free registered key

Rights: FRED terms apply and individual series can carry source-specific rights or restrictions.

Credit: FRED and the series' original source

Join using: FRED series ID, date, vintage date

Open sourceFree key required
BLS Public Data API

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discovery lead

Published employment, wages, prices, productivity, injuries, and labor-market time series.

Coverage
United States
Access
Keyless limited API; free registration expands access

Rights: Public U.S. statistical data; preserve BLS series definitions, footnotes, and attribution.

Credit: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Join using: BLS series ID, year, period

Open sourceNo key required
BEA Data API

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discovery lead

GDP, income, trade, industry, regional, and international economic accounts.

Coverage
United States and international accounts
Access
REST API with a free registered key

Rights: Official U.S. economic statistics; retain BEA attribution and dataset notes.

Credit: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Join using: BEA dataset, table, line code, geography, year

Open sourceFree key required
EIA Open Data API

U.S. Energy Information Administration

Discovery lead

Energy production, consumption, prices, reserves, electricity, and emissions data.

Coverage
United States and international energy series
Access
REST API with a free key; keyless bulk downloads

Rights: Official U.S. energy statistics; API terms apply and source attribution should be retained.

Credit: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Join using: EIA route, series, period, geography

Open sourceFree key required
SEC EDGAR Data APIs

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Discovery lead

Company submissions and standardized XBRL financial-statement facts, with nightly bulk archives.

Coverage
United States issuers and foreign registrants
Access
Keyless JSON APIs and bulk ZIP archives

Rights: Public filing data; automated access must follow SEC fair-access and identification policies.

Credit: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR

Join using: CIK, taxonomy, XBRL concept, fiscal period, accession number

Open sourceNo key required
CMS Data API

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Ready connector

Public health-care provider, quality, utilization, payment, and coverage datasets.

Coverage
United States
Access
Dataset-specific JSON APIs and CSV downloads

Rights: Public CMS datasets; review each dataset dictionary, suppression rules, and attribution notes.

Credit: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Join using: CMS certification number, NPI, measure ID, FIPS

Configure & previewNo key required
NOAA Climate Data Online

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Discovery lead

Weather and climate observations, stations, locations, and dataset metadata.

Coverage
Global station and gridded coverage
Access
JSON API with a free token; other public web services

Rights: Official U.S. environmental observations; retain NOAA/NCEI attribution and quality flags.

Credit: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Join using: station ID, location ID, datatype ID, date

Open sourceFree key required
USGS Water Data APIs

U.S. Geological Survey

Discovery lead

Real-time and historical water measurements plus monitoring-location and time-series metadata.

Coverage
United States
Access
Keyless REST and OGC APIs; keys may raise limits

Rights: Official U.S. scientific data; retain USGS attribution, qualifiers, and provisional-data notices.

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Join using: monitoring location ID, parameter code, time series ID, timestamp

Open sourceNo key required
Eurostat APIs

European Commission, Eurostat

Discovery lead

Official European statistical data and metadata through catalogue, JSON-stat, and SDMX services.

Coverage
European Union, member states, and partner geographies
Access
Free keyless REST, JSON-stat, SDMX, CSV, and catalogue APIs

Rights: Eurostat reuse policy and dataset footnotes apply; keep source, unit, geography, and revision context.

Credit: Eurostat

Join using: dataset code, dimension code, geography, time period

Open sourceNo key required
Wikidata

Wikimedia Foundation and Wikidata community

Discovery lead

General-purpose linked entities and statements with references, stable identifiers, APIs, and SPARQL.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless SPARQL, REST, Action API, and data dumps

Rights: Structured Wikidata is CC0; individual statements can still require source-quality review.

Credit: Wikidata (requested as a data-origin courtesy)

Join using: Wikidata QID, property ID, external identifier

Open sourceNo key required
Harvard Dataverse

Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science and dataset depositors

Discovery lead

Published research datasets with searchable metadata, persistent identifiers, citations, and files.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless search for published data; API token for restricted operations

Rights: Each deposited dataset controls its own license, citation, access, and file restrictions.

Credit: Dataset authors, citation, DOI, and Harvard Dataverse

Join using: DOI, persistent ID, dataset ID, file ID

Open sourceNo key required
Hugging Face Datasets

Hugging Face and dataset publishers

Discovery lead

Machine-learning and general datasets with searchable cards, previews, schemas, Croissant metadata, and files.

Coverage
Global
Access
Open Hub API and keyless public Dataset Viewer API

Rights: License, provenance, quality, and gating are dataset-specific; a public card is not proof of reuse rights.

Credit: Dataset publisher and Hugging Face repository

Join using: repository ID, revision, configuration, split

Open sourceNo key required
NASA Open APIs

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Discovery lead

A catalog of public space, Earth observation, astronomy, and mission APIs.

Coverage
Global and extraterrestrial
Access
DEMO_KEY for exploration; free registered key for regular use

Rights: NASA media, partner data, and individual services can have distinct rights and attribution rules.

Credit: NASA and the named mission or data provider

Join using: mission ID, object ID, observation date, event ID

Open sourceFree key required
EPA Envirofacts

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discovery lead

Environmental facilities, air, water, waste, toxics, radiation, compliance, and geographic data across EPA systems.

Coverage
United States
Access
Keyless REST and GraphQL APIs with JSON, CSV, and Parquet output

Rights: Official U.S. environmental data; retain EPA system metadata, qualifiers, update context, and attribution.

Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the named source system

Join using: EPA facility ID, program ID, substance ID, FIPS, ZIP code

Open sourceNo key required
OECD Data Explorer API

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Discovery lead

Comparable international statistics and metadata across economies, education, taxation, trade, health, and policy.

Coverage
OECD members and partner economies
Access
Free keyless SDMX API with JSON, CSV, and XML

Rights: OECD terms and dataset notes apply; retain dataset, dimension, unit, and organization attribution.

Credit: OECD and the named dataset producer

Join using: agency ID, dataset ID, dimension code, geography, time period

Open sourceNo key required
Crossref REST API

Crossref and member publishers

Ready connector

Open DOI, work, journal, funder, license, update, ORCID, and ROR metadata deposited by publishers and trusted sources.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless public REST API; identified polite requests recommended

Rights: Most metadata is openly reusable; some abstracts and linked content remain publisher- or author-controlled.

Credit: Crossref and the depositing publisher or trusted source

Join using: DOI, ISSN, ORCID, ROR, Crossref member ID

Configure & previewNo key required
Ready connector

Open metadata for public code repositories and packages: stars, forks, open issues, last push, license, and npm adoption.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless public REST API

Rights: Data is CC BY-SA 4.0: attribution is required and derived datasets carry the same license.

Credit: Ecosyste.ms (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Join using: repository full name, package name, repository URL

Configure & previewNo key required
Open-Meteo

Open-Meteo and named meteorological data providers

Discovery lead

Normalized weather forecasts, historical reanalysis, climate, air quality, marine, flood, and elevation APIs.

Coverage
Global
Access
Keyless open-access JSON APIs; paid capacity available

Rights: Open-access API data is CC BY 4.0 with required attribution; usage limits and commercial plan terms apply.

Credit: Weather data by Open-Meteo.com and the named underlying model provider

Join using: latitude, longitude, time, weather variable, model

Open sourceNo key required
Google Dataset Search

Google and indexed dataset publishers

Discovery lead

A broad search engine for datasets published across repositories on the web.

Coverage
Global; dataset dependent
Access
Manual browser search across indexed repositories

Rights: Google indexes metadata but does not grant reuse rights; review the publisher's license and repository terms for every result.

Credit: Original dataset publisher and repository; discovery via Google Dataset Search

Join using: dataset identifier, repository URL, publisher identifiers

Open sourceNo key required
UCI Machine Learning Repository

University of California, Irvine

Download & map

Curated machine-learning datasets with files, task metadata, variable descriptions, citations, and persistent identifiers.

Coverage
Global; dataset dependent
Access
Dataset file download or ucimlrepo Python package

Rights: UCI states deposited datasets use CC BY 4.0; retain each dataset's DOI and requested citation and review any dataset-specific notes.

Credit: Dataset creators, dataset DOI, and the UCI repository

Join using: dataset DOI, dataset ID, record identifier, feature name

Open sourceNo key required
Data Is Plural

Data Is Plural and the linked dataset publishers

Discovery lead

A curated newsletter and searchable archive of useful, unusual, and newly released datasets.

Coverage
Global; dataset dependent
Access
Searchable HTML, spreadsheet, and Markdown archive

Rights: The archive points to third-party datasets and is not a blanket license; verify the original publisher, provenance, and reuse terms.

Credit: Original dataset publisher; discovery via Data Is Plural when useful

Join using: archive entry, source URL, publisher identifiers

Open sourceNo key required
Download & map

Teaching-ready statistics datasets with browsable documentation and CSV, TSV, and R download paths.

Coverage
Dataset dependent
Access
Documented CSV, TSV, and R dataset downloads

Rights: Review each dataset's source, documentation, citation, and rights before reuse outside its teaching context.

Credit: OpenIntro and the original source named on the dataset page

Join using: dataset name, record identifier, documented variable

Open sourceNo key required
Tableau Public

Tableau Public authors and their named data publishers

Discovery lead

A public gallery of interactive visualizations that can reveal useful datasets, methods, and publishers.

Coverage
Global; workbook dependent
Access
Public workbook search; downloads only where enabled

Rights: Tableau does not own or publish workbook authors' data; download availability and reuse rights vary and must be confirmed with the author or original publisher.

Credit: Workbook author and original data publisher; Tableau Public as host

Join using: workbook URL, author, original dataset identifier

Open sourceNo key required

Official model-level Mac specifications, configuration details, compatibility information, and current product comparisons.

Coverage
Market-specific Apple storefronts
Access
Official comparison and technical-specification pages

Rights: Apple website terms apply. Treat specifications as attributed evidence and do not assume permission to redistribute Apple page content or imagery.

Credit: Apple

Join using: model identifier, chip, memory, storage, screen size

Open sourceNo key required

Official iPhone model specifications, feature compatibility, dimensions, storage options, and current product comparisons.

Coverage
Market-specific Apple storefronts
Access
Official comparison and technical-specification pages

Rights: Apple website terms apply. Attribute specifications to Apple and do not treat product-page content or imagery as openly licensed.

Credit: Apple

Join using: model name, model number, storage tier

Open sourceNo key required
Geekbench Browser

Primate Labs

Discovery lead

Public browser for uploaded CPU, GPU, and machine-learning benchmark results with device and system metadata.

Coverage
Global user-submitted results
Access
Public result browser

Rights: Results are user-submitted and Primate Labs terms apply. Verify exact hardware metadata and keep comparisons within the same benchmark major version.

Credit: Geekbench and the individual result record

Join using: benchmark version, model identifier, processor, result id

Open sourceNo key required
Discovery lead

Official program information and integrator lists for products tested against NVMe specifications.

Coverage
Global product ecosystem
Access
Official program pages and integrator lists

Rights: NVM Express terms apply. Compliance status verifies specification testing; it does not establish workload performance or consumer reliability.

Credit: NVM Express

Join using: vendor, product name, model number, specification version

Open sourceNo key required
smartmontools drive database

smartmontools contributors

Download & map

Community-maintained device identification and SMART interpretation rules for storage drives.

Coverage
Global device coverage
Access
Versioned open-source drive database download

Rights: smartmontools is GPL-licensed. Preserve the project's license and attribution, and treat device rules as identification metadata rather than performance evidence.

Credit: smartmontools contributors

Join using: model family, model number, firmware, SMART attribute

Open sourceNo key required
Download & map

Downloadable drive-level observations from Backblaze's data-center fleet, including model and failure context.

Coverage
Backblaze data-center fleet
Access
Public downloadable archives

Rights: Backblaze publishes reuse terms with the dataset. Preserve attribution and do not generalize data-center fleet results into consumer SSD rankings without a fit analysis.

Credit: Backblaze Drive Stats

Join using: model, serial number, date, failure flag

Open sourceNo key required
NTIA Internet Use Survey

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Download & map

Official U.S. survey datasets and explorer covering internet access, device access, and online activities across population groups.

Coverage
United States
Access
Public dataset downloads and data explorer

Rights: U.S. government survey data. Preserve NTIA and Census attribution, survey-year definitions, weights, and disclosure controls.

Credit: NTIA Internet Use Survey and U.S. Census Bureau

Join using: survey year, respondent, household, activity, population group

Open sourceNo key required
UK DSIT Public Engagement Survey

UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Download & map

Official survey releases on public engagement, awareness, attitudes, and behaviors concerning science and technology.

Coverage
United Kingdom
Access
Official publication and downloadable tables

Rights: Check the release's Open Government Licence and third-party-rights notices. Preserve survey wording, weights, sample notes, and DSIT attribution.

Credit: UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Join using: survey wave, question, population group, response category

Open sourceNo key required

Official UK research releases and supporting datasets on device access, online behavior, media use, skills, and safety.

Coverage
United Kingdom
Access
Official reports and downloadable data tables

Rights: Ofcom terms and release-specific rights apply. Preserve question wording, base sizes, weighting, uncertainty notes, and Ofcom attribution.

Credit: Ofcom

Join using: survey year, question, population group, device, activity

Open sourceNo key required
Agent access

One contract for finding and using data

Agents can search the registry, plan sources per criterion, preview a reviewed connector, and import only after an owner approves the mapping.

GET /api/v1/sources?q={topic}&criterion={criterion}

MCP /api/mcp

sources → plan_dataset → preview_source → import_source

Review boundary

Useful does not mean approved

  • Confirm the exact dataset's current license and terms.
  • Preserve the named publisher and required attribution.
  • Preview rows, units, identifiers, and joins before writing.
  • Keep discovery sites separate from evidence publishers.

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