Archive.org vs InfraNode

The Internet Archive's Advanced Search and Metadata APIs let you query and pull structured records for its 99+ million digitized books, web captures, audio, video, and software items. Reads are keyless for both the search endpoint (archive.org/advancedsearch.php) and per-item metadata (archive.org/metadata/{identifier}), returning JSON, XML, or CSV depending on the requested output format.

InfraNode unifies open data for dozens of German cities into a single versioned REST API, covering weather, air quality, EV charging, public-transit departures, demographics, and dozens of other civic datasets. Every endpoint is keyless and rate-limited per IP rather than gated behind a subscription ("Die API ist offen und braucht keinen API-Key"), with an OpenAPI spec and Postman collection published for quick integration. The project is open source (Apache-2.0) and runs on a server in Germany with no ads.