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Open Government, Australia

Australia's national open-data catalogue over CKAN

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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The Australian Government's central open-data portal, served through a standard CKAN API. Search 130k+ datasets and their resources with keyword, facet, and paging parameters. Metadata returns as JSON, with licensing set per dataset.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 86 · healthy
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
98.3%30 days
944P50 · ms
2685P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 262 ms, slowest 1725 ms, most recent 1032 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "count": 139812,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "00602301-ad90-4657-abd9-8025d9bf485a",
        "name": "native-title-determination-applications-register",
        "author": "National Native Title Tribunal",
        "license_title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"
const res = await fetch("https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /action/package_search?rows=1944 mschecked 12h ago
GET/action/package_search?rows=1PROBED

Australia's national open-data catalogue over CKAN

GET/action

Action — documented GET route.

GET/action/1

Action details by ID (example: 1).

GET/action?limit=10

Action — documented GET route.

GET/action/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/action/package_search?limit=5

Package Search — 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, Australia: common questions

Is Open Government, Australia free to use?

Yes — Open Government, Australia is a free government API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Open Government, Australia need an API key?

No — Open Government, Australia needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Government, Australia from the browser?

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

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Australia is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 944 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.