Health · head-to-head
Humanitarian Data Exchange vs Makeup
HDX is OCHA's CKAN-based catalog of over 18,000 humanitarian and public-health datasets (disease outbreaks, health-facility locations, population and displacement data) covering 250+ locations, searchable and downloadable through the standard keyless CKAN Action API (package_list, package_show, datastore_search). A live GET against data.humdata.org/api/3/action/status_show succeeds with no key, and a live Origin-header probe returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving the stored 'unknown' to 'yes'.
Makeup API is a free, keyless single-endpoint REST service serving a static catalogue of cosmetics products — lipsticks, foundations, eyeshadows, and more — searchable by brand, product type, category, tag, price, and rating, with per-product image and retailer links. Still live on Heroku with no auth, no published rate limit, and no formal SLA; it's a hobby open-data project rather than a maintained commercial API. A live GET against makeup-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/products.json succeeds over both http and https with no key, and returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * — resolving the stored 'unknown' cors to 'yes' and the stored 'https: false' to 'true'.
| Humanitarian Data Exchange | Makeup | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |