Thingful

Thingful: Open Data Search Engine

Discover over 1,500 open datasets from around the world with Thingful, a user-friendly interface to browse and search open data portals.

What is Thingful?

Thingful is an open data search engine launched in 2014 that aims to make open data more discoverable and usable. It allows users to easily search over 1,500 open datasets from around the world in one place instead of needing to visit different open data portals.

Thingful provides a clean, intuitive user interface to browse and search open data. Users can filter data by location, format, publisher or license. There is also a predictive search feature that gives suggestions as users type. Once users find a dataset they are interested in, they can preview the data directly on the Thingful platform before deciding to access or download the full dataset.

A key capability Thingful offers is the ability to preview and interact with the data. This allows users to explore the data and understand what it contains without needing to download large files and try to open them. If users do decide they want to utilize the full dataset, Thingful provides direct access links to download the data in its original format.

Thingful also has features tailored towards developers. This includes a REST API to allow the data to be searched and accessed programmatically. There are also code snippets and libraries available to make it easier for developers to work with the open data in their applications.

Overall, Thingful aims to democratize open data by making it more discoverable and usable to the average citizen as well as developers building data-driven applications.

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