Everything on this network is built on data anyone can use for free. Here is the honest list — what each source gives, plus its official link and a sample call — so you can pull the same numbers we do and check our work.
By Amit Jain · with Vinod Kumar Jain · All Frontier Global · free, no login
Development and macro indicators for ~200 economies — GDP, trade, population, tariffs, ease-of-doing-business era archives — via a free JSON API (licensed CC BY 4.0). This is where our country-comparison figures come from.
https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/IND/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?format=jsonDocs: World Bank API help desk
Metadata for 150M+ scholarly works — titles, authors, journals, citation counts, references — searchable by DOI or keyword, no key needed. Powers our DOI Explorer.
https://api.crossref.org/works?query=india+export+diversificationDocs: api.crossref.org
Daily FX rates for 160+ currencies from ExchangeRate-API's open (keyless) endpoint, free with attribution. Handy for quick landed-cost and price conversions — for contractual rates use your bank's quote.
https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USDWeather forecasts, current conditions and long climate histories for any coordinates — free for non-commercial use, no key. Behind the climate notes on our city and relocation pages.
https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=28.61&longitude=77.21¤t_weather=trueDocs: open-meteo.com/en/docs
Free RSS feeds of news headlines by keyword, topic or region — no key, standard RSS/XML. We use keyword feeds to keep trade-news pages fresh; usage is subject to Google's terms.
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=india+trade+policyThe structured-data backbone of Wikipedia: facts about countries, cities, companies and people as machine-readable statements (CC0 — public domain), queryable via API and SPARQL.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q668&format=jsonQuery service: query.wikidata.org (SPARQL)
Clean article summaries, images and metadata for any topic via the REST endpoint (text CC BY-SA). We use it for place and topic primers across the network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/International_trade