World Heritage Sites API

Use this API to add searchable UNESCO World Heritage Site data to travel products, conservation dashboards, education tools, cultural reference apps, and destination enrichment workflows. It returns normalized JSON records with country and UNESCO-region filters, parsed selection criteria, cultural/natural/mixed categories, inscription years, danger-list flags, source-page attribution, and coverage summary endpoints.

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Use Cases

filter World Heritage Sites by country, UNESCO region, category, criterion, and inscription year
enrich travel, education, and cultural reference products with source-attributed heritage records
identify sites represented on the World Heritage in Danger list for conservation and research workflows

Access

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Endpoints

GET/api/worldheritagesites/sites

List World Heritage Sites or filter by name, country, UNESCO region, location, category, criterion, inscription year, danger status, source, or free text.

Query parameters: name, country, region, location, category, criterion, inscribed_from, inscribed_to, in_danger, source, q, limit

/api/worldheritagesites/sites?name=example&country=example

GET/api/worldheritagesites/countries

List countries represented in the dataset with site counts.

/api/worldheritagesites/countries

GET/api/worldheritagesites/regions

List UNESCO regions represented in the dataset with site counts.

/api/worldheritagesites/regions

GET/api/worldheritagesites/categories

List site categories represented in parsed UNESCO data with site counts.

/api/worldheritagesites/categories

GET/api/worldheritagesites/criteria

List UNESCO selection criteria represented in parsed records with site counts.

/api/worldheritagesites/criteria

GET/api/worldheritagesites/danger

List parsed World Heritage in Danger records.

Query parameters: limit

/api/worldheritagesites/danger?limit=10

GET/api/worldheritagesites/sources

List Wikipedia source pages used for collection.

/api/worldheritagesites/sources

GET/api/worldheritagesites/summary

Return dataset-level coverage totals for sites, countries, regions, sources, and danger records.

/api/worldheritagesites/summary

Pricing

Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for prototypes and quick integration tests.
Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 14d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: world_heritage_sites