Data Commons
Data Commons on the APIs.io network is a curated area collecting 6 resources — specifications, tools, and documentation — for this subject.
24 providers on the network work in this area, including Agricultural Statistics Service, Wikidata, Wikipedia / MediaWiki, Opendatasoft, US Census Bureau, The Bureau of Economic Analysis, and 18 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
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About this area
Data Commons is an open knowledge graph initiative led by Google that aggregates and harmonizes the world’s public data into a single graph, making global statistical data simple to explore, query, and integrate through REST, Python, BigQuery, web component, and MCP interfaces.
Curated resources (6)
Data Commons REST API V2
HTTP REST interface for retrieving statistical observations, exploring the Data Commons knowledge graph, and resolving entities to Data Commons IDs (DCIDs). Returns structured JSON data covering variables, places, and...
Data Commons Python Client
Official Python client library that wraps the Data Commons REST API with native Pandas DataFrame support for analytical workflows and notebook integration.
Data Commons Google Sheets
Custom Google Sheets functions that pull Data Commons statistical data directly into spreadsheets without requiring an API key.
Data Commons Web Components
Drop-in JavaScript/HTML web components for embedding Data Commons charts, maps, rankings, and visualizations in any website.
Data Commons BigQuery
SQL access to Data Commons through Google BigQuery enabling complex analytical queries and joins with private datasets.
Data Commons MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents query Data Commons conversationally, surfacing variables, places, and observations through natural language tools.
Related providers (535)
Top 24 of 535 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Statistics Service | The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) whose mission is to support the United States, its agricul... | 4 | developing |
| Wikidata | Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It provides structured linked data for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects... | 5 | developing |
| Wikipedia / MediaWiki | Wikipedia is the free, multilingual online encyclopedia operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The platform exposes its content and structured data through several pub... | 5 | developing |
| Opendatasoft | Open data platform with REST APIs for accessing public datasets from 1,000+ cities and organizations, providing standard OData and JSON query interfaces. Now operating as Huwise... | 3 | thin |
| US Census Bureau | The U.S. Census Bureau is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. Established in 1902 and part of the U.S. Departmen... | 7 | thin |
| The Bureau of Economic Analysis | The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides economic data to policymakers, businesses, and the general public. The BE... | 1 | thin |
| Department of Energy | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides extensive open data and APIs across its national laboratories and program offices. Notable APIs are published by the Energy Informat... | 6 | thin |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Analysis Tools | The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for collecting, analysing, and disseminating crime, criminal-justice, expe... | 2 | thin |
| Eurostat | Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, providing free and open REST APIs for programmatic access to European statistical data covering demographics, economy, ... | 5 | thin |
| UNICEF Data | UNICEF Data is the official open data platform of the United Nations Children's Fund, providing programmatic access to global child welfare statistics, health and nutrition indi... | 3 | thin |
| United States Census Bureau | The U.S. Census Bureau is the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. The Census Bureau has been rolling out datasets via APIs, providing program... | 3 | thin |
| Bureau of Transportation Statistics | The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT) is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight a... | 3 | thin |
| ConceptNet | ConceptNet is a freely available multilingual knowledge graph that gives computers access to common-sense knowledge. It represents over 13 million links between concepts across ... | 1 | thin |
| DBnomics | DBnomics is the world's economic database - a free, open-source aggregator run by Cepremap that harvests macroeconomic time series from more than 90 national and international p... | 4 | thin |
| Department of Labor | The U.S. Department of Labor provides REST APIs exposing over 200 datasets covering employment statistics, H-1B and foreign labor visa data, OSHA inspections and enforcement, wa... | 8 | thin |
| Department of Justice | The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is the federal executive department responsible for enforcing the law and defending the interests of the United States. DOJ exposes a portfo... | 5 | minimal |
| Department of Labor | The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the federal department that fosters, promotes, and develops the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees, improves working condit... | 5 | minimal |
| DBpedia | DBpedia is a community project that extracts structured data from Wikipedia and publishes it as Linked Open Data on the Web. It provides a SPARQL endpoint, a Lookup Service for ... | 6 | minimal |
| Wiktionary | Wiktionary is the free, collaborative multilingual dictionary project of the Wikimedia Foundation, the dictionary sibling of Wikipedia. Programmatic access is exposed through th... | 3 | developing |
| Sportmonks | Sportmonks is a Dutch sports data provider (Deventer, Netherlands) delivering developer-friendly REST APIs for football/soccer, cricket, and motorsport (Formula 1). The platform... | 4 | developing |
| Scryfall | Scryfall is the most comprehensive free Magic - The Gathering card database. The Scryfall API exposes Cards (search, autocomplete, named, random, collection, by various IDs), Se... | 1 | developing |
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal federal statistical agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in t... | 1 | developing |
| Stack Exchange | Stack Exchange is the network of Q&A communities founded by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood and headlined by Stack Overflow, the largest community of software developers on the web... | 2 | developing |
| Google Knowledge Graph Search | The Google Knowledge Graph Search API allows developers to search for entities (people, places, things) in the Google Knowledge Graph and retrieve structured data about them in ... | 1 | developing |
Related areas
Tags: Data Commons, Knowledge Graph, Open Data, Public Data, Statistics.
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