iDigBio vs NASA

iDigBio is a keyless REST API exposing more than 150 million digitized natural-history specimen records — pressed plants, pinned insects, fossils, and more — contributed by U.S. museums and herbaria under an NSF-funded national digitization effort. Search and summary endpoints return Darwin Core fields (collector, locality, taxonomic name) as JSON, and the same backend powers iDigBio's public specimen-browsing portal.

NASA's Open APIs give programmatic access to imagery and data from missions across the agency — the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars rover photos, near-Earth object tracking, and Earth-imagery archives among them. A free registered key raises the shared DEMO_KEY's 30-requests/hour limit to 1,000 requests/hour. All endpoints return JSON.