CityStats is a minimal API for accessing data on all 50 US States and the top 330 most populous US Cities. Publicly available to all, CityStats aims to provide up to date data and statistics in a programmatically-accessible format that can be utilized and integrated into educational and research projects.
Aggregating and integrating data from multiple local government websites as well as publicly available resources like Wikipedia, CityStats provides its users with a simple API with which to interface using their programming language of choice.
About CityStats
CityStats was created by the web developer, Brian Hayes, who made CityStats out of a desire for a simple interface to access aggregated data about both State and Local governments.
CityStats is a Free and Open Source Project. If you wish to report a bug, contribute to, or fork the project, you can find the source code over on Github.
Under the hood, CityStats is written primarily in JavaScript, but Python is utilized as well to aggregate data from publicly available sources. Specifically, CityStats utilizes the Fastify framework, the React library, and Python's Beautiful Soup library.
How Do I Use CityStats?
The developer of CityStats assumes that its users have a basic understanding of programming concepts when it comes to data fetching. That said, CityStats is a very minimal API and is relatively easy to get started. The best way to begin is by reading The Docs.