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Open Government, Canada

Search Canada's open-data catalogue via the CKAN API

🏛 GovernmentUNMONITORED
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.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
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())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /action/package_search?rows=1 awaits first probe
GET/action/package_search?rows=1PROBED

Search Canada's open-data catalogue via the CKAN API

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

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

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?

Not directly — Open Government, Canada doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Open Government, Canada up right now?

Open Government, Canada is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.