CKAN CKAN API

The CKAN API API from CKAN — 1 operation(s) for ckan api.

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GET / GET / #

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ckan-ckan-api-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CKAN API
  version: '2026-10-13'
  description: 'GENERATED FROM DOCUMENTATION by API Evangelist on 2026-10-13: 7 operation(s) read from 6 public documentation page(s) (each operation names its page in x-source). This is not the provider''s published contract; CKAN has published no machine-readable contract that the pipeline could find. Engine: local.'
  x-evidence-tiers:
    code-example: 12
    documentation: -5
    pages-with-code: 6
    pages-read: 6
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-provenance: generated
  x-authored-by: API Evangelist
  x-generated: '2026-10-13'
  x-generator: generate-contract-from-docs.py
  x-engine: local
  x-sources:
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/index.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/legacy-api.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/maintaining/filestore.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/maintaining/datastore.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/extensions/remote-config-update.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/contributing/test.html
servers:
- url: http://demo.ckan.org
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: CKAN API
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: get
      tags:
      - CKAN API
      summary: GET /
      x-source: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/index.html
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (shape read from the example response on the page)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetResponse'
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: "curl https : // demo . ckan . org / api / 3 / action / group_list \n Alternatively, for Python users, we recommend using the ckanapi \nlibrary which provides a simpler and more robust way to interact with CKAN APIs.\nTo install it, run: \n pip install ckanapi \n Then you can make the same API call with just a few lines of Python code: \n from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN \n ckan = RemoteCKAN ( 'https://demo"
components:
  schemas:
    GetResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        help:
          type: string
        success:
          type: boolean
        result:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization