API
https://data.nasa.gov/stories/s/gk8h-th3y
https://developer.nytimes.com/
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/api-guide.html
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/homr/reports/mshr
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2#stations
https://learn.vonage.com/blog/2021/03/15/the-ultimate-list-of-fun-apis-for-your-next-coding-project/
JSON Examples
List of countries, territories and currencies: https://restcountries.com/v2/all
JSONPlaceholder: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
List of cities around the world: https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/records/1.0/search/?dataset=worldcitiespop&rows=10
List of programming languages: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/linguist/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml
There are many publicly available JSON files, covering a wide range of topics. Here are a few examples:
GitHub API: https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos
OpenWeatherMap API: https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&appid={API key}
Reddit API: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/top.json
COVID-19 Data: https://data.cdc.gov/resource/9mfq-cb36.json
Twitter API: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3Atwitterdev&result_type=popular
SpaceX API: https://api.spacexdata.com/v4/launches
Yelp API: https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search?term=restaurants&location=San+Francisco
New York Times API: https://api.nytimes.com/svc/topstories/v2/world.json?api-key={API key}
Open Library Books API: https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780980200447&format=json&jscmd=data
Flickr API: https://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key={API key}&text=landscape&format=json&nojsoncallback=1
World Bank API: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json
US Census Bureau API: https://api.census.gov/data/2019/pep/population?get=POP&for=state:*&key={API key}
National Park Service API: https://developer.nps.gov/api/v1/parks?limit=10&q=yosemite&api_key={API key}
Marvel Comics API: https://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public/characters?nameStartsWith=Spider&apikey={API key}
COVID-19 Vaccinations API: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/COVIDData/getAjaxData?id=vaccinations_state_cumulative&_=1620710832765
NBA Stats API: https://data.nba.net/10s/prod/v1/2021/players.json
SpaceX Launches API: https://api.spacexdata.com/v4/launches/past
OMDB API (Open Movie Database): http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey={API key}&t=The+Matrix
Google Books API: https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:0451526538