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Open Government, Portugal

Portugal's national open-data catalog as paginated JSON

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The API behind Portugal's official open-data portal, listing datasets with metadata such as access type, description, timestamps, badges, and contact points. Responses are paginated JSON so you can crawl the whole catalog. Built on the udata platform and keyless for reads.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 63 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
897P50 · ms
3753P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 323 ms, slowest 1845 ms, most recent 559 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://dados.gov.pt/api/1/datasets/?page_size=1

{
  "data": [
    {
      "access_type": "open",
      "acronym": null,
      "archived": null,
      "created_at": "2026-07-01T00:30:12.213000+00:00",
      "description": "Este conjunto de dados integra os Conjuntos de Dados de Elevado Valor/HVD identificados de acordo com o Regulamento de Execução n.º 2023/138 …"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://dados.gov.pt/api/1/datasets/?page_size=1"
const res = await fetch("https://dados.gov.pt/api/1/datasets/?page_size=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://dados.gov.pt/api/1/datasets/?page_size=1")
print(res.json())

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

Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /datasets/?page_size=1897 mschecked 8h ago
GET/datasets/?page_size=1PROBED

Portugal's national open-data catalog as paginated JSON

GET/datasets/?limit=5

Datasets — documented GET route.

GET/datasets/?page=1

Datasets — documented GET route.

GET/access_type/reason_categories/

List all limitation reason categories

GET/activity/

Fetch site activity, optionally filtered by user or org

GET/avatars/{identifier}/{size}/

Get a deterministic avatar given an identifier at a given size

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, Portugal: common questions

Is Open Government, Portugal free to use?

Yes — Open Government, Portugal is a free government API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Open Government, Portugal need an API key?

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

Can I call Open Government, Portugal from the browser?

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

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Portugal is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 897 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.