Software

   rfema - an R package to help access the Federal Emergency Managment Agency's (FEMA) API - rfema is an R package that serves as a wrapper for the open FEMA API. The package allows users to access FEMA's publicly available data and provides a set of functions to easily navigate and access all data sets provided by FEMA, including (but not limited to) data from the National Flood Insurance Program and FEMA’s various disaster aid programs. The package has gone through software peer review and is part of the rOpenSci suite of packages.
   droughtmonitor - A python-based API wrapper for U.S. Drought Monitor - The droughtmonitor package provides a set of tools for making programatic access to drought data from U.S. Drought Monitor more accessable.
   rfcip - an R package to facilitate access to U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program data. - rfcip provides a set of tools that allows users to access publicly available data related to the Federal Crop Insurance Program. The package provides a set of functions to easily navigate and access data that is publicly available, but otherwise scattered across different urls, files, and data portals. Although no official API exists for Federal Crop Insurance Data, much of the data can be located with a structured url meaning the rfcip package effectively functions like a defacto API wrapper.