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I'm currently writing a research paper about the bitcoin network and need access to a list of well known addresses linked to e.g. MtGox, Silk Road, SatoshiDice, BitPay etc.

However, I can't find a API call on blockchain.info to retrieve this information or at least a search field on the website. Do I just miss them?

Do you know any other sources for this information?

Of course blockchain.info wouldn't supply this information. Why would they? They just have a simple API. I'm pretty sure certain addresses have been marked (e.g. I've seen SatoshiDice Hot wallet or LuckyBit Red, etc.) IIRC, you can simply search for them.

I just found https://blockchain.info/tags but it seems like you can't search for a specific address or service. The only option I see is to write a crawler script which extracs all addresses from all pages  :-\

I created a quick 'n dirty python script to crawl blockchain.info/tags:

http://pastebin.com/c3wXxQVk

However, many important addresses are still missing like mtgox and silk road  :(

Yes,www.walletexplorer.com can help you find weather an address belongs to particular service only and only if they have listed/named it in their notes on the blockchain.Anyhow,I'm more curious about the paper you're coming up with.What does it proves?Why SatoshiDice and Bitpay ? What do you mean by addresses linked to Silk Road ? There were a n number of merchants and buyers with different addresses,no way you can figure out weather they're linked to Silk Road or not.

Great, thank you! I can remember to have seen that site looong ago :)

The paper is related to this one: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
However, I can't disclose my topic yet. Also I don't want my real name beeing linked to this account.

Very informative and detailed! I'm quite surprised by few of the facts you have mentioned.Please get back to me if you need any additional information about exchanges/bitcoin major scams/the famous bitcoin thief's!You're certainly doing a great job spreading the word.

there are many known addresses are mentioned in https://www.walletexplorer.com/ . it shows also the related addresses that owned by the same person ie different addresses in one tx
I hope this site can help your research  

As for services you mentioned in the Op:
- MtGox - I would ask older users about it, people familiar with Mt.Gox should have their old addresses bookmarked
- Silk Road - it could be hard as I dubt anyone will share info about their affinity with SR
- SatoshiDice - why don't you ask in their official thread on bitcointalk? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77870.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77870.0)
- BitPay - it is a legal company, shoot them an "official mail".