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Open Government, Victoria State Government

Victoria's public datasets, searchable via a CKAN JSON API

🏛 GovernmentHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

The Victorian Government's open-data portal exposes a standard CKAN action API at discover.data.vic.gov.au. Ask it to list or search the state's datasets and you get clean JSON with permissive CORS. Most data defaults to CC BY 4.0 under the DataVic access policy.

80HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 80 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
1536P50 · ms
4900P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 868 ms, slowest 3234 ms, most recent 1613 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/package_list?limit=3

{
  "success": true,
  "result": [
    "100000-metre-squares",
    "1-50-000-amg-mapsheet-boundaries",
    "1999-index-of-stream-condition-scores"
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/package_list?limit=3"
const res = await fetch("https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/package_list?limit=3");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/api/3/action/package_list?limit=3")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /action/package_list?limit=31536 mschecked 12h ago
GET/action/package_list?limit=3PROBED

Victoria's public datasets, searchable via a CKAN JSON API

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_list?limit=5

Package List — 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, Victoria State Government: common questions

Is Open Government, Victoria State Government free to use?

Yes — Open Government, Victoria State Government is a free government API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Open Government, Victoria State Government need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Open Government, Victoria State Government from the browser?

Yes — Open Government, Victoria State 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, Victoria State Government up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Open Government, Victoria State Government is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 1536 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.