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Australia's national open data catalogue: datasets and resources published by federal, state and territory agencies.

Capabilities (25)

GET /v1/data/datagovau/action-help1 credit

Returns the upstream's own docstring for a named CKAN action, listing its arguments, their types and its return shape.

name
GET /v1/data/datagovau/autocomplete-datasets1 credit

Returns a short list of datasets whose name or title starts with the given text, as name, title and matched field only.

qlimit?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/autocomplete-formats1 credit

Returns the resource format strings in use across the catalogue that match the given text, as a flat array.

qlimit?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/autocomplete-organizations1 credit

Returns organisations whose name or title matches the given text, as id, slug and display title only.

qlimit?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/dataset1 credit

Returns one complete dataset record: title, description, publishing organisation, contact point, temporal and spatial coverage, tags, licence id and title, and every resource with its download URL, format and size.

idinclude_tracking?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/dataset-names1 credit

Returns a flat alphabetical array of dataset slugs, with no metadata, for bulk enumeration of the catalogue.

limitoffset?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/datasets-with-resources1 credit

Returns a page of full dataset records, each with its complete resource list, ordered by most recently modified first.

limitoffset?page?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/datastore-records1 credit

Returns the actual data rows of a resource whose contents are loaded into the CKAN datastore, with the column schema, the total row count and the matching records as JSON objects.

resource_idq?limit?offset?fields?filters?sort?distinct?include_total?plain?language?records_format?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/datastore-sql1 credit

Executes a read-only SELECT against the CKAN datastore and returns the result rows plus the inferred column types.

sql
GET /v1/data/datagovau/datastore-table1 credit

Returns the datastore table behind a resource: row count, table size in bytes, and every column with its Postgres type and index information.

id
GET /v1/data/datagovau/group1 credit

Returns one thematic group: slug, title, description, image, dataset count and optionally its extras and member users.

idinclude_extras?include_users?include_groups?include_followers?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/group-datasets1 credit

Returns the full dataset records that belong to one thematic group, newest first.

idlimit?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/groups1 credit

Lists the catalogue's thematic groups - business, environment, health, transport and the rest - each with its slug, title, description and dataset count.

limit?offset?sort?groups?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/licences1 credit

Returns the licences the catalogue recognises, each with its id, title, URL and flags for whether it is OSI or OKD compliant and whether it covers content, data or software.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/datagovau/licenses1 credit

Returns the licences the portal offers, each with its id, title, URL and open-definition conformance flags.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/datagovau/organization1 credit

Returns one publishing organisation: slug, display title, description, image, approval status, dataset count, and optionally its datasets and member users.

idinclude_datasets?include_extras?include_users?include_groups?include_followers?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/organizations1 credit

Lists the agencies and bodies that publish to data.gov.au, each with its slug, display title, description, image and dataset count.

limit?offset?q?sort?organizations?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/recent-changes1 credit

Returns the newest create and update activities across the catalogue, each carrying a timestamp, the activity type and the full dataset record it applied to.

limitoffset?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/resource1 credit

Returns one file or service attached to a dataset: its download URL, format, MIME type, size, description, timestamps and whether its contents are loaded into the queryable datastore.

idinclude_tracking?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/resource-search1 credit

Searches resources (individual files) rather than datasets and returns up to 50 matching resource records with format, URL, description and the id of their parent dataset.

queryoffset?order_by?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/search1 credit

Runs a Solr query over every dataset and returns the total count plus full dataset records - title, notes, organisation, tags, licence and the resource list - with optional facet counts.

q?rows?start?sort?fq?facet.field?facet.limit?include_private?include_drafts?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/search-resources1 credit

Searches the individual files and services across all datasets by exact resource field, returning the match count and a capped page of resource records with their download URLs.

querylimitoffset?order_by?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/site-status1 credit

Returns the site title, URL, CKAN version, locale and the list of enabled CKAN extensions.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/datagovau/tags1 credit

Returns the catalogue tag names that contain a given string, drawn from both free tags and the controlled vocabularies.

queryvocabulary_id?all_fields?
GET /v1/data/datagovau/vocabularies1 credit

Returns every controlled vocabulary defined on the site, such as geospatial topics and fields of research, with all of their permitted tag values.

No parameters

Licence

Most data.gov.au datasets are published under Creative Commons Attribution licences; each dataset states its own, returned with the record.

https://data.gov.au/about

Attribution

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

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