Data Catalogue

GovernmentCA

catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca

You may send [feedback](https://extranet.gov.bc.ca/forms/dbc/contact/index.html) and [request datasets](https://extranet.gov.bc.ca/forms/dbc/contact/index.html). Adapted the UK [Open Government License](https://www.data.gov.bc.ca/dbc/admin/terms.page?).

Runs on your machine under the source's own terms

The crw MCP on your computer calls Data Catalogue directly. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:

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Capabilities (14)

data-gov-bc-ca/datasetFree, runs locally

Full metadata for one dataset: title, notes, licence, organization, tags, extras and the complete resource list with download URLs and formats.

data-gov-bc-ca/dataset-namesFree, runs locally

Flat JSON array of every dataset slug on the portal, in alphabetical order.

limit?offset?

data-gov-bc-ca/datasetsFree, runs locally

Solr-backed search over every dataset published on the Latvian open data portal; returns a page of 20 full dataset records plus the total match count and facets.

q?fq?sort?start?facet.field?

data-gov-bc-ca/dataset-suggestFree, runs locally

Lightweight typeahead: matching datasets as {name, title, match_field} objects, no resources or descriptions.

qlimit?

data-gov-bc-ca/group-datasetsFree, runs locally

A page of up to 20 full dataset records belonging to one thematic group, with the group's total count.

groupq?sort?start?

data-gov-bc-ca/licensesFree, runs locally

Every licence the portal offers publishers, as {id, title, url, od_conformance, osd_conformance} objects.

No parameters

data-gov-bc-ca/organizationFree, runs locally

Metadata for one publishing organization: title, description, contact extras, dataset count and (optionally) its datasets.

idinclude_datasets?include_extras?include_followers?

data-gov-bc-ca/organization-datasetsFree, runs locally

A page of up to 20 full dataset records published by one organization, with the total count for that publisher.

organizationq?sort?start?

data-gov-bc-ca/organizationsFree, runs locally

Every publishing organization on the portal with its name, display title, description, image and dataset count.

limit?offset?sort?

data-gov-bc-ca/resourceFree, runs locally

Metadata for one file or API endpoint attached to a dataset: download URL, format, size, description and datastore flag.

data-gov-bc-ca/resource-searchFree, runs locally

Searches resource metadata (not datasets) across the whole portal and returns up to 50 matching resource records with their download URLs.

queryoffset?order_by?

data-gov-bc-ca/site-statusFree, runs locally

The portal's CKAN version, site title, locale and the list of installed CKAN extensions.

No parameters

data-gov-bc-ca/tagFree, runs locally

The id, name and vocabulary of one tag, and optionally every dataset carrying it.

idinclude_datasets?vocabulary_id?

data-gov-bc-ca/tagsFree, runs locally

Flat JSON array of every free tag used on the portal.

query?vocabulary_id?

Licence

For the reproduction of materials found in the BC Data Catalogue, either a license agreement (as specified in the BC Data Catalogue) will apply or the materials are “access only” and reproduction is not permitted without written permission.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=1AAACC9C65754E4D89A118B875E0FBDA

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attributionText.

Source: Data Catalogue (Province of British Columbia). Data published by the portal's contributing organisations.

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