# data.gov.au Federal API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/data-gov-au/data-gov-au-api/  
**Provider:** data.gov.au Federal — https://apis.io/providers/data-gov-au/  
**Base URL:** http://demo.ckan.org  
**Documentation:** https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api

data.gov.au Federal API is one of 2 APIs that [data.gov.au Federal](https://apis.io/providers/data-gov-au/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 5 JSON Schemas.

data.gov.au Federal API as documented publicly: 15 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-21); not the provider's own document.

## Operations (15)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/` | GET / |
| GET | `/api/3/action/am_following_user` | GET /api/3/action/am_following_user |
| GET | `/api/3/action/datastore_search` | GET /api/3/action/datastore_search |
| GET | `/api/3/action/group_list` | GET /api/3/action/group_list |
| GET | `/api/3/action/help_show` | GET /api/3/action/help_show |
| GET | `/api/3/action/package_search` | GET /api/3/action/package_search |
| GET | `/api/3/action/resource_patch` | Upload a new version of a resource file |
| POST | `/api/3/action/resource_patch` | POST /api/3/action/resource_patch |
| GET | `/api/3/action/tag_list` | GET /api/3/action/tag_list |
| GET | `/api/action/package_search` | GET /api/action/package_search |
| GET | `/api/action/resource_create` | GET /api/action/resource_create |
| GET | `/api/action/resource_update` | GET /api/action/resource_update |
| GET | `/api/search/dataset` | GET /api/search/dataset |
| GET | `/solr/admin` | GET /solr/admin |
| GET | `/solr/admin/cores` | GET /solr/admin/cores |

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/openapi/_ae-authored/data-gov-au-openapi-generated.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api-search-dataset-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api3-action-group-list-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/json-schema/data-gov-au-get-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api3-action-resource-patch-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api-action-resource-update-response-schema.json

## Other data.gov.au Federal APIs (1)

- [data.gov.au Federal CKAN Action API](https://apis.io/apis/data-gov-au/catalog/)

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