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NASA vs World Bank

NASA

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.

World Bank

The World Bank's Indicators API gives free, keyless REST access to the World Development Indicators dataset — thousands of economic, social, and environmental indicators across nearly 300 countries and regions, spanning six decades. Responses are paginated JSON or XML, covering countries, regions, income levels, lending types, topics, sources, and the indicator series themselves.

NASAWorld Bank
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON, XML
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

World Bank supports 2 response formats, while NASA offers fewer — pick World Bank for more integration flexibility.

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