Data
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Every series behind the dashboard, downloadable. No signup, no API key, CORS open. If you publish from these files, the license column tells you what attribution each one expects; when in doubt, “data: straits.live” with a link is always enough for the computed series.
- Daily transits
Daily rows, weekly IMF publish
CSV
Full IMF PortWatch daily transit history for the strait (chokepoint6). This is the series the big prediction-market reopening contracts resolve on. Date, total, tanker, cargo. A readable day-by-day table is at /how-many-ships-passed-through-the-strait-of-hormuz-today.
Free to use · underlying data © IMF PortWatch, cite IMF when republishing
- Hormuz Index history
5-minute, last 7 days
CSV
Both composites (Crisis Pressure and Escalation Forecast) joined on timestamp, with band labels. Append ?granularity=daily for the full open/close/min/max daily history. Versioned methodology at /methodology.
CC0, our own derived work, no attribution required
- Status snapshot
Live, one row per poll
CSV
One-row snapshot of the current dashboard state. Re-poll on a schedule to build your own history. Column order is stable; new columns are appended.
CC0 for the computed verdict and metrics
- Oil prices
5-minute, rolling ~7 days
CSV
Brent and WTI spot history, timestamped.
Free to use · attribution requested
- War events
As indexed
CSV
Indexed strikes, ship incidents, closures, and negotiations, with a source URL per row.
Free to use · per-row sources cited inline
- Live snapshot
30-second cache
JSON
Every live indicator in one bundle: verdict, transits, Brent, insurance, Hormuz Index summary, carriers, events. The recommended machine entry point.
CC0 for the computed verdict and metrics
- Hormuz Index
5-minute
JSON
Current reading with per-component breakdown plus 24h history for both composites.
CC0, our own derived work
- Daily transits
Daily rows, weekly IMF publish
JSON
Same series as transits.csv with the full vessel-type and capacity breakdown on the latest record.
Free to use · underlying data © IMF PortWatch
GitHub mirror
Every dataset here is also mirrored to a public GitHub repository, refreshed daily, for researchers and reproducible citation.
Cite this dataset
Plain text:
Straits (2026). Strait of Hormuz Crisis Dataset. https://straits.live/data
BibTeX:
@misc{straits_hormuz_data,
title = {Strait of Hormuz Crisis Dataset},
author = {{Straits}},
url = {https://straits.live/data},
year = {2026},
note = {Accessed via straits.live/data; mirror at github.com/jasonhjohnson/strait-of-hormuz-data}
}Premium API
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