Open Government, Switzerland
Switzerland's open-data catalogue over CKAN
opendata.swiss, the Swiss Confederation's central open-data portal, exposed as a CKAN API. Search 17k+ multilingual datasets (DE/FR/IT/EN) and read their metadata as JSON. Contact points and periodicity use EU publication-office vocabularies.
GET https://opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1
{
"success": true,
"result": {
"count": 17205,
"results": [
{
"creator_user_id": "af084126-f711-4016-a585-70354e997796",
"accrual_periodicity": "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/IRREG",
"contact_points": [
{
"name": "Service de géologie, sols et déchets"
}
]
}
]
}
}curl "https://opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1"const res = await fetch("https://opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);import requests
res = requests.get("https://opendata.swiss/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1")
print(res.json())/action/package_search?rows=1PROBEDSwitzerland's open-data catalogue over CKAN
/actionAction — documented GET route.
/action/1Action details by ID (example: 1).
/action?limit=10Action — documented GET route.
/action/search?q=testSearch by query parameters.
/action/package_search?limit=5Package Search — documented GET route.
We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.
Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.
Open Government, Switzerland: common questions
Is Open Government, Switzerland free to use?
Yes — Open Government, Switzerland 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, Switzerland need an API key?
No — Open Government, Switzerland needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).
Can I call Open Government, Switzerland from the browser?
Yes — Open Government, Switzerland 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, Switzerland up right now?
As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Switzerland is new. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.