Socrata Discovery API

Full catalogue record for one or more Socrata assets looked up by four-by-four ID, including the complete column schema (names, field names, datatypes, descriptions), the portal's custom metadata fields, update and publication timestamps and the canonical permalink.

Assets whose title matches the supplied string exactly, which surfaces the same dataset as published by many different portals.

Assets whose metadata credits a given organisation as the source, regardless of which portal hosts them.

Asset titles matching a partial query, each returned with the matched character offsets, for type-ahead over the catalogue.

Assets filed under a given category, across every indexed portal by default or within one portal when a search context is supplied.

The charts, maps, filtered views and other assets that portal users have built on top of a given source dataset, each with its own metadata and permalink.

Every asset published on one Socrata portal, with full metadata for each - title, description, four-by-four ID, asset type, owner, column list, page views and permalink.

Every category used on one portal with the number of assets filed under each.

Assets on one portal carrying a given tag from that portal's own tag vocabulary, with full metadata for each.

Every tag used on one portal with the number of assets carrying each, ordered by count.

Assets whose publisher-entered licence field matches the supplied string exactly, returned with the same full metadata as a search result. The field is free text typed by the publishing agency, not a validated licence identifier.

Everything published by one Socrata user account, across the portals that account publishes to.

Full-text search across every asset indexed in the Socrata federated catalogue, returning each asset's title, description, four-by-four ID, owner, column names and datatypes, page views, update timestamps and the permalink on its home portal.