# The Pudding

A publication of interactive visual essays on culture (music, words, film, the internet), with the datasets and analysis scripts behind many stories released on GitHub.

- Category: Data stories and visualization · by The Pudding (small independent team)
- Website: https://pudding.cool/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- API unclear. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- Download: https://github.com/the-pudding/data (csv, json)
- License: MIT (data repository) (https://github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/LICENSE); covers datasets and scripts in the the-pudding/data repo only; stories and graphics have no stated reuse license; some entries link to other repos with their own terms
- Commercial use OK
- Credit required
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (data_download): "Yup! Whenever possible, we release our data and data analysis scripts in a GitHub repo for public use." (https://pudding.cool/resources/)
- Quote (commercial): "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell" (https://github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/LICENSE)
- Quote (attribution): "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." (https://github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/LICENSE)
- Quote (repo): "Data sets created for stories on The Pudding, open to the public." (https://github.com/the-pudding/data)

## Rules for an agent

- Get data from github.com/the-pudding/data (one folder per story slug; the README table lists each dataset and its update frequency); there is no API.
- Keep the MIT copyright notice ('Copyright (c) 2019 The Pudding') when you redistribute the data
- Do not copy or embed the stories' text and graphics; only the data repo carries a license
- Check the linked repo's own license for datasets hosted outside the-pudding/data

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/the-pudding/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.