Public APIs could be used to populate people names list

[ccoVeille]

Some APIs could be a good source of candidates for people-name dictionary

[ccoVeille]

I also found

https://github.com/RandomAPI/Randomuser.me-Node

This repository could be a gold mine

https://github.com/RandomAPI/Randomuser.me-Node/tree/master/api%2F.nextRelease%2Fdata

[ccoVeille]

This one's license is MIT

[ccoVeille]

Name day is a good source of candidates for people-name dictionary

https://nameday.abalin.net/docs/#

MIT license, dump provided and available in the repository

[ccoVeille]

JSON export has been provided

With xnekv03/nameday-api@fdd39bd

Via xnekv03/nameday-api#85

Message above has been updated

[Jason3S]

@ccoVeille,

I'm ok with use publicly available data to populate dictionaries. We just need to be very careful of license issues. I would like to bundle the name dictionary with CSpell. But, it cannot be a GPL type of license. That would prevent it from being installed.

[ccoVeille]

Indeed. I'm not license-aware enough

[ccoVeille]

I opened

• API license xnekv03/nameday-api#85 (comment)

[Jason3S]

The US Census has a list of names. This site refers to it: https://www.mynameday.com/uscensus.html

[ccoVeille]

I'm curious about the license, but yes, it's a good list.

I'm impressed by the variety of firstnames for the women

[Jason3S]

Here is a cool link: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data.html

US Census data is public by default.

[ccoVeille]

Ah OK, indeed. US gov things or gov data

We do have

https://data.gouv.fr here

[ccoVeille]

So here you can get all French firstname

https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/fichier-des-prenoms-depuis-1900/

Here is the list of dead people, it includes names I think

https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/fichier-des-personnes-decedees/

All these are public