# Data.gov Harvester (datagov-harvester)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/data-gov/datajson-harvester/  
**Provider:** Data.gov — https://apis.io/providers/data-gov/  
**Documentation:** https://harvest.data.gov/

Data.gov Harvester (datagov-harvester) is one of 4 APIs that [Data.gov](https://apis.io/providers/data-gov/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Harvesting, Catalog, and Ingestion.

The Data.gov harvester service ingests dataset metadata from federal, state, local, and tribal data.json endpoints, CKAN sources, and other CSW/WAF sources on a scheduled cadence and writes records into the central catalog. It is a publisher-facing service (not a public API for consumers) but its source code is open at GSA/datagov-harvester and it documents the harvest source types, job schedules, and validation rules used by Data.gov.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/GSA/datagov-harvester
- **Portal** — https://harvest.data.gov/

## Other Data.gov APIs (3)

- [Data.gov CKAN Action API](https://apis.io/apis/data-gov/ckan-action-api/)
- [Project Open Data (data.json) Catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/data-gov/project-open-data/)
- [Inventory.data.gov CKAN API](https://apis.io/apis/data-gov/inventory-api/)

## Tags

Harvesting, Catalog, Ingestion

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