API & Data Endpoints

Open JSON endpoints, public-domain underlying files, no auth, no rate limits, no scraping required. Built for journalists, researchers, and anyone who wants to ingest the Trump PURSUE UFO archive into their own pipeline.

Core endpoints

Quick recipes

List all files (curl + jq)

curl -s https://pursueufotracker.com/generated/api/files.json \
  | jq '.files[] | {id, title, agency, score, url}'

Get the top 10 by score

curl -s https://pursueufotracker.com/generated/api/files.json \
  | jq '.files | sort_by(.score) | reverse | .[0:10]'

Verify a file against war.gov

# 1. Get the SHA-256 from our manifest
curl -s https://pursueufotracker.com/generated/verification-manifest.json \
  | jq '.[] | select(.id == "fbi-photo-a1") | .sha256'

# 2. Download the file from war.gov
curl -O https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/fbi-photo-a1.png

# 3. Hash it locally and compare
sha256sum fbi-photo-a1.png
# Windows PowerShell: Get-FileHash fbi-photo-a1.png -Algorithm SHA256

Recompute a file's score from the open rubric

// JavaScript / Node
const rubric = await fetch('https://pursueufotracker.com/data/scoring-rubric.json').then(r => r.json());
const file = await fetch('https://pursueufotracker.com/generated/api/files/nasa-uap-d3a-gemini-7-audio-excerpt-1965.json').then(r => r.json());

const score = Object.entries(file.score.components).reduce((sum, [k, choice]) => {
  const comp = rubric.components[k];
  return sum + comp.scale[choice] * comp.weight;
}, 0);

console.log('Recomputed score:', Math.round(score), '/ Published score:', file.score.value);
// Recomputed score: 72 / Published score: 72

Subscribe to new-drop alerts (RSS)

# Any RSS reader. Examples:
# Feedly:    https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fpursueufotracker.com%2Fgenerated%2Ffeed.xml
# Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/?add_feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpursueufotracker.com%2Fgenerated%2Ffeed.xml
# Or visit the feed directly: https://pursueufotracker.com/generated/feed.xml

Stability & SLAs

This is a personal-budget project, not an enterprise API. That said:

• No rate limits on these endpoints. Cloudflare handles bandwidth.
• No auth required. No API keys, no signups.
• Schema may change. Open an issue if you depend on a field and want a heads-up before breaking changes. GitHub issues
• If you build something cool with these endpoints, tell me. I'd like to feature it on the press page.

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