Open Government, Canada
Search Canada's open-data catalogue via the CKAN API
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓
The Government of Canada's open-data portal exposes a standard CKAN API, so you can search and page through tens of thousands of federal datasets and read their full metadata as JSON. No key is required for reads. Data is published under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
100%30 days
975P50 · ms
2437P95 · ms
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 205 ms, slowest 2255 ms, most recent 406 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1
{
"help": "https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/help_show?name=package_search",
"success": true,
"result": {
"count": 47469
}
}Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"const res = await fetch("https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);import requests
res = requests.get("https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())Monitored path responding — GET /action/package_search?rows=1975 mschecked 9h ago
GET
/action/package_search?rows=1PROBEDSearch Canada's open-data catalogue via the CKAN API
GET
/actionAction — documented GET route.
GET
/action/1Action details by ID (example: 1).
GET
/action?limit=10Action — documented GET route.
GET
/action/search?q=testSearch by query parameters.
GET
/action/package_search?limit=5Package 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, Canada: common questions
Is Open Government, Canada free to use?
Yes — Open Government, Canada is a free government API. Free tier: Free / open data. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.
Does Open Government, Canada need an API key?
No — Open Government, Canada needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).
Can I call Open Government, Canada from the browser?
Yes — Open Government, Canada 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, Canada up right now?
As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Canada is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 975 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.