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Open Government, ACT

Canberra's open data via a Socrata catalog API

🏛 GovernmentUNMONITOREDchecked 14 min ago
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The Australian Capital Territory's open-data platform, running on Socrata. Its discovery API lists datasets with their IDs, owners, and update times as JSON, and each dataset also carries its own SODA query endpoint. No key is needed to browse the catalog.

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Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1

{
  "results": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "name": "Traffic speed camera locations",
        "id": "426s-vdu4",
        "type": "dataset",
        "attribution": "Access Canberra",
        "updatedAt": "2026-06-11T03:52:58.000Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1 has been probed
GET/api/catalog/v1?domains=data.act.gov.au&search_context=data.act.gov.au&limit=1PROBED

Canberra's open data via a Socrata catalog API

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.

Open Government, ACT: common questions

Is Open Government, ACT free to use?

Yes — Open Government, ACT is a free government API. Free tier: Free — app token optional (raises limits). Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Open Government, ACT need an API key?

No — Open Government, ACT needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Throttled; higher limits with a free Socrata app token).

Can I call Open Government, ACT from the browser?

Yes — Open Government, ACT 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 Open Government, ACT up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, ACT is unmonitored. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.