Colorado Information Marketplace

Colorado state open-data catalog and datasets

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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Colorado's state open-data portal runs on Socrata, so both its dataset catalog and individual datasets are queryable as JSON without a key. The sample hits the catalog discovery endpoint and returns dataset metadata.

61HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 61 · healthy
Uptime history
98.0%90 days
96.7%30 days
1241P50 · ms
3296P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 242 ms, slowest 2397 ms, most recent 464 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://data.colorado.gov/api/catalog/v1?limit=1

{
  "results": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "name": "Dallas Police Active Calls",
        "id": "9fxf-t2tr",
        "type": "dataset"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://data.colorado.gov/api/catalog/v1?limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://data.colorado.gov/api/catalog/v1?limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://data.colorado.gov/api/catalog/v1?limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/catalog/v1?limit=11241 mschecked 12h ago
GET/api/catalog/v1?limit=1PROBED

Colorado state open-data catalog and datasets

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/catalog/v1?limit=5

V1 — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Colorado Information Marketplace: common questions

Is Colorado Information Marketplace free to use?

Yes — Colorado Information Marketplace is a free government API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Colorado Information Marketplace need an API key?

No — Colorado Information Marketplace needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Colorado Information Marketplace from the browser?

Yes — Colorado Information Marketplace returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Colorado Information Marketplace up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Colorado Information Marketplace is healthy with 98.0% uptime over 90 days and a 1241 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.