Open Government, Queensland Government

Queensland Government open data over CKAN

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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The Queensland Government's open-data portal, running CKAN. Search 180k+ datasets and resources spanning state and council publishers, returned as JSON. Many datasets carry Creative Commons Attribution licensing.

66HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 66 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
1142P50 · ms
2014P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 62 ms, slowest 1892 ms, most recent 1233 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "count": 188828,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "170171cc-16c1-4f80-a9cd-4d180f3dc26a",
        "name": "telemetry-sensors-rainfall-and-stream-heights",
        "isopen": true,
        "license_title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"
const res = await fetch("https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.data.qld.gov.au/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /action/package_search?rows=11142 mschecked 12h ago
GET/action/package_search?rows=1PROBED

Queensland Government open data 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, Queensland Government: common questions

Is Open Government, Queensland Government free to use?

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

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Government, Queensland Government from the browser?

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

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Queensland Government is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 1142 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.