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Open Government, Germany

Germany's federal open-data catalogue over CKAN

🏛 GovernmentUNMONITOREDchecked 14 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

GovData, the German federation's cross-jurisdiction open-data portal, exposed as a CKAN API. Query 130k+ datasets from federal, state, and municipal publishers and get JSON metadata back. Data licenses vary per record.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Uptime history
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Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.govdata.de/ckan/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "count": 131284,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "b6766a52-7fc8-4d96-8ecf-002ba04ccac1",
        "name": "iggensbach-baufertigstellungen",
        "num_resources": 4,
        "organization": {
          "name": "open-data-bayern",
          "title": "open.bydata"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.govdata.de/ckan/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"
const res = await fetch("https://www.govdata.de/ckan/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.govdata.de/ckan/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /action/package_search?rows=1 has been probed
GET/action/package_search?rows=1PROBED

Germany's federal 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, Germany: common questions

Is Open Government, Germany free to use?

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

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Government, Germany from the browser?

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

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