Is there any publicly accessible JSON data source to test with real world data?

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ILya picture ILya · Nov 28, 2011 · Viewed 136.6k times · Source

I'm working on a JavaScript dynamically loaded tree view user control. I'd like to test it with real world data.

Does anybody know any public service with an API that provides access to hierarchical data in JSON format?

Answer

Alex Gray picture Alex Gray · Dec 28, 2011

Twitter has a public API which returns JSON, for example -

A GET request to:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=mralexgray&count=1,

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