United State Open Government

REST API for searching and browsing metadata across hundreds of thousands of US federal open datasets hosted on data.gov. Returns dataset titles, descriptions, tags, and resource links but does not serve the underlying data files directly.

Slug: united-state-open-government
Key: data.gov:united-state-open-government
Base URL: https://catalog.data.gov/api/3
Auth: none
Endpoints: 3
Reachable: unknown
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified

Links

Homepage: https://data.gov/contact/
API Base: https://catalog.data.gov/api/3

Topics

GOVERNMENT, OPEN_DATA

Tutorials

Getting Started with the data.gov Catalog API — I can search the data.gov catalog for U.S. federal government datasets by topic or agency and return their download URLs — but this API provides metadata only, not the actual data files, which live on each agency's own servers.

Skills

Search federal datasets — I can search the data.gov catalog for U.S. federal datasets by topic and return their download URLs — but this API provides metadata only, not the actual data files, which live on each agency's own servers.
Search federal datasets by topic — I can search the data.gov catalog for U.S. federal government datasets by topic and return their titles, descriptions, and download URLs — but this provides metadata only; the actual data files live on each agency's own servers.

Endpoints (3)

Path	Summary	Response	Auth
action/group_list	List dataset groups	`text/plain`	none
action/package_search	Search datasets	`text/plain`	none
action/package_show	Get dataset details	`application/json`	none