Data.gov API

Provides search and retrieval access to the U.S. government's open data catalog, enabling discovery of federal datasets by keyword, organization, topic, and resource type via a CKAN-based API.

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Slug: data
Key: data.gov:data.gov-api
Base URL: https://api.data.gov/
Auth: none
Endpoints: 16
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 16:08:00.490464

Links

Homepage: https://www.data.gov/contact/
API Base: https://api.data.gov/

Topics

GOVERNMENT, KNOWLEDGE

Tutorials

Getting Started with the Data.gov Catalog API — I can search and retrieve metadata for hundreds of thousands of U.S. federal government datasets via the Data.gov CKAN catalog — including title, agency, description, tags, and direct download URLs — but the API returns metadata only, not the underlying data files themselves.

Endpoints (18)

Path	Summary	Response	Auth
action/group_list	List groups	`text/html`	none
action/group_show	Get group details	`text/html`	none
action/organization_list	List organizations	`text/html`	none
action/organization_show	Get organization details	`application/json`	none
action/package_autocomplete	Autocomplete dataset names	`text/html`	none
action/package_search	Search datasets	`text/html`	none
action/package_show	Get dataset details	`application/json`	none
action/resource_search	Search for resources	`application/json`	none
action/resource_show	Get resource metadata	`application/json`	none
action/status_show	Get API status	`text/html`	none
action/tag_list	List tags	`text/html`	none
group_list	List topic groups	`?`	none
group_show	Get topic group details	`application/json`	api_key
organization_list	List government agencies	`?`	none
organization_show	Get agency details	`application/json`	api_key
package_autocomplete	Autocomplete dataset names	`application/json`	none
package_search	Search datasets	`application/json`	none
package_show	Get dataset details	`?`	none

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