# Databento Metadata API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-metadata-api/  
**Provider:** Databento — https://apis.io/providers/databento/  
**Base URL:** https://hist.databento.com/v0  
**Documentation:** https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-historical/metadata/metadata-list-datasets

Databento Metadata API is one of 7 APIs that [Databento](https://apis.io/providers/databento/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Metadata, Reference Data, Market Data, Datasets, and Financial Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and an OpenAPI specification.

Discovery and cost-estimation endpoints for the historical catalog. List publishers, datasets, schemas, and fields; look up per-dataset date ranges and data-quality conditions; and pre-compute the record count, billable size, and dollar cost of a query before you run it. Essential for planning research and controlling spend on financial and reference data.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-historical
- **APIReference** — https://databento.com/docs/api-reference-historical/metadata/metadata-list-datasets
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/openapi/databento-metadata-api-openapi.yml
- **PostmanCollection** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/collections/databento.postman_collection.json
- **OpenCollection** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/databento/refs/heads/main/collections/databento.opencollection.json

## Other Databento APIs (6)

- [Databento Historical Timeseries API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-historical-timeseries-api/)
- [Databento Symbology API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-symbology-api/)
- [Databento Batch API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-batch-api/)
- [Databento Live Streaming API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-live-streaming-api/)
- [Databento Reference API](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-reference-api/)
- [Databento OpenAPI specification](https://apis.io/apis/databento/databento-platform-openapi-official/)

## Tags

Metadata, Reference Data, Market Data, Datasets, Financial Data

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