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Open Government, Finland

Finland's open-data portal on CKAN

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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Finland's national open-data service (Avoindata.fi), backed by CKAN. Search datasets from municipalities and agencies and read their metadata as JSON. Licensing is per dataset, with CC BY 4.0 common.

46HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 46 · healthy
Uptime history
61.8%90 days
65.0%30 days
2657P50 · ms
4471P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 605 ms, slowest 4471 ms, most recent 1022 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "count": 2528,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "b19b726f-8a77-4bc3-9a2c-c4e0eb379982",
        "maintainer": "Teuvan kunta",
        "license_title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"
const res = await fetch("https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())

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

Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /action/package_search?rows=12657 mschecked 12h ago
GET/action/package_search?rows=1PROBED

Finland's open-data portal on 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, Finland: common questions

Is Open Government, Finland free to use?

Yes — Open Government, Finland 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, Finland need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Government, Finland from the browser?

Not directly — Open Government, Finland 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, Finland up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Finland is healthy with 61.8% uptime over 90 days and a 2657 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.