Real-time billionaires API

Warning

There will be a major update for this API soon. Additional details and which changes will occur as well as changed API endpoints / request queries will be announced as soon as known.

Use https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/komed3/rtb-api@v1/api/{REQUEST} to fetch data in unchanged format beyond the upcomming update.

This repository contains profile and list data from Forbes’ real-time billionaires. It will mostly be updated once a month.

This data can be used unlimited and without any limitation.

Take a look on how the API data can be used by visiting realtimebillionaires.de.

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If you intend to use this data yourself, please note that the API consists of almost 50,000 individual files in over 4,000 directories and that the total size of the unpacked files is around two gigabytes.

Download the files as ZIP archive directly from GitHub using this link.

API

Requests can be done by using jsDelivr:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/komed3/rtb-api@main/api/{REQUEST}

As {REQUEST} use one of the paths below.

Global

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
availableDays	Available days (real-time list)			x
latest	Latest day (real-time list)	x
updated	Latest update timestamp	x

Profiles

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
profile/_index	List of all profiles		x
profile/_alias	List of profile aliases		x

Single profile

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
profile/{URI}/info	Profile info		x
profile/{URI}/bio	Biography and about profile		x
profile/{URI}/assets	Financial assets		x
profile/{URI}/rank	Ranking		x
profile/{URI}/latest	Latest rank / net worth		x
profile/{URI}/history	Rank / net worth history data			x
profile/{URI}/related	Related profiles		x
profile/{URI}/annual	Annual report		x
profile/{URI}/updated	Profile info update timestamp	x

The {URI} argument is described in the profiles index and is unique to each profile.

Lists

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
list/_index	Available lists index		x
list/{LIST}/{DATE}	Real-time list as of passed date		x
list/{LIST}/latest	Latest real-time list		x

The {LIST} argument is described in the lists index. Use {DATE} format YYYY-MM-DD for available days.

Stats

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
stats/count	Daily number of billionaires			x
stats/total	Daily total net worth			x
stats/woman	Daily number of woman billionaires			x
stats/country/_index	Countries index			x
stats/country/_list	List of countries by number, fortune and richest individual			x
stats/country/{KEY}	Daily list with number, total net worth and richest individual			x
stats/industry/_index	Industries index			x
stats/industry/_list	List of industries by number, fortune and richest individual			x
stats/industry/{KEY}	Daily list with number, total net worth and richest individual			x
stats/agePyramid	Age pyramide (male/female)		x
stats/children	Number of billionaires by their children		x
stats/maritalStatus	Number of billionaires by their marital status		x
stats/selfMade	Number of billionaires by their self-made score		x
stats/map	Addresses and coordinates of billionaires known homes		x
stats/top10	Top 10 richest billionaires list for each month		x

The {KEY} argument is a valid country code (ISO) or industry key. Both are described by their corresponding indices.

Movers

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
movers/pct/winner/{DATE}	Winners in percent as of date		x
movers/pct/winner/latest	Latest winners in percent		x
movers/pct/winner/_list	List of daily top winners in percent			x
movers/pct/loser/{DATE}	Losers in percent as of date		x
movers/pct/loser/latest	Latest losers in percent		x
movers/pct/loser/_list	List of daily top losers in percent			x
movers/value/winner/{DATE}	Winners in net worth as of date		x
movers/value/winner/latest	Latest winners in net worth		x
movers/value/winner/_list	List of daily top winners in net worth			x
movers/value/loser/{DATE}	Losers in net worth as of date		x
movers/value/loser/latest	Latest losers in net worth		x
movers/value/loser/_list	List of daily top losers in net worth			x

Use {DATE} format YYYY-MM-DD for available days.

Filter

REQUEST	Description	String	JSON	CSV
filter/_index	Global filter index		x
filter/country/_index	Countries index		x
filter/country/{KEY}	List of billionaires by country		x
filter/industry/_index	Industries index		x
filter/industry/{KEY}	List of billionaires by industry		x
filter/woman	List of woman billionaires		x
filter/young	List of young billionaires (under 50)		x
filter/old	List of old billionaires (over 80)		x
filter/selfMade	List of self-made billionaires		x
filter/dropped	List of dropped off billionaires		x
filter/deceased	List of deceased billionaires		x

The {KEY} argument is a valid country code (ISO) or industry key. Both are described by their corresponding indices.