Open Data · head-to-head
Nobel Prize vs Urban Observatory
The official Nobel Prize API serves structured, keyless JSON on every laureate, prize category, and award year back to 1901, including prize amounts (nominal and inflation-adjusted) and links between related records. A live query against api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes needs no key and returns a wildcard Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, so it's directly callable from browser code.
Urban Observatory, run by Newcastle University, streams one of the UK's largest real-time urban sensor networks, covering air quality, traffic, flooding, and weather, from thousands of fixed and mobile sensors across Newcastle and partner cities. Its v2 API is fully keyless and exposes sensor locations and readings as JSON, CSV, or Shapefile, with bounding-box filtering for GIS tools. It's an academic, publicly funded service with no commercial tiers.
| Nobel Prize | Urban Observatory | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, CSV, Shapefile |
| CORS | yes | no |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Nobel Prize supports CORS, while Urban Observatory doesn't — pick Nobel Prize for direct browser calls.