Localinar Data API

Quick Start

All endpoints return JSON. All URLs are relative to https://localinar.com.

# Get list of available cities
curl https://localinar.com/api/v1/cities.json

# Get all 504 entities (restaurants, cafes, venues, institutions) in Tubingen
curl https://localinar.com/tuebingen/api/entities.json

# Get 2026 state election results for Freiburg, by district
curl https://localinar.com/freiburg/api/elections.json

# Get all 25 annual events in Tubingen with budgets and dates
curl https://localinar.com/tuebingen/api/events.json

JavaScript example

const res = await fetch('https://localinar.com/tuebingen/api/entities.json');
const data = await res.json();
console.log(`${data.count} entities in Tübingen`);
// Filter to restaurants only
const restaurants = data.data.filter(e => e.cat === 'Food & Hospitality');

Python example

import requests
data = requests.get('https://localinar.com/freiburg/api/elections.json').json()
print(data['data']['freiburg']['parties'])
# {'GRÜNE': {'pct': 48.7}, 'CDU': {'pct': 18.3}, ...}

Available Cities

Endpoints

Every city exposes the same endpoint structure under /[city]/api/[dataset].json.

CORS & Licensing

CORS: All endpoints send Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *. You can fetch directly from any browser without a proxy.

License: The data is aggregated from multiple sources with different licenses:

• Geographic/entity data from OpenStreetMap is licensed under ODbL
• Election results from Statistisches Landesamt BW under DL-DE BY 2.0
• Funding data aggregated from municipal budgets, DFG GEPRIS, BMBF, EU CORDIS (public)
• Manually curated content (events, insights) © Localinar — please attribute

When using this data, please attribute: Data from localinar.com · OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistisches Landesamt BW

What's Missing?

This is a raw data API. It does not currently support:

• Query filtering (bbox, category, district filters — you filter client-side)
• Pagination (files are small enough to load fully)
• Authentication or API keys (everything is public)
• Rate limiting (reasonable use expected)
• Historical snapshots (always serves current data)
• More cities (Tübingen and Freiburg only for now)

If you need any of these, tell us what you're building. The API will evolve based on real usage.