Florida Man vs Trove

Florida Man API serves a static, occasionally-updated JSON dataset of more than 10,000 real 'Florida Man' headlines scraped from news outlets, each with a title, source, date, and keyword tags. It's hosted as flat JSON on GitHub Pages rather than a dynamic backend, so there's no authentication, no rate limit, and no key required — just a GET request away.

Trove is the National Library of Australia's aggregated search across newspapers, books, images, maps, and other cultural-heritage records spanning well over a century. Its REST API returns XML by default with JSON available via an encoding parameter, and moved from v2 to a mandatory v3 in September 2024 after the older version was discontinued. A free API key is required, issued instantly through a Trove account for non-commercial use.