EU Open Data Portal Distributions API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: EU Open Data Portal Search Catalogs Distributions API
  description: The EU Open Data Portal Search API (data.europa.eu) provides REST access for discovering, searching, and querying European Union open datasets. The API follows DCAT-AP metadata standards and supports discovery of datasets from EU institutions, member state portals, and federated open data sources. No authentication required.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: EU Open Data Portal Support
    url: https://data.europa.eu/en/contact
  license:
    name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search
  description: EU Open Data Portal Search API
tags:
- name: Distributions
  description: Access dataset distributions and download links
paths:
  /datasets/{datasetId}/distributions:
    get:
      operationId: getDatasetDistributions
      summary: List dataset distributions
      description: Returns all available distributions (download files, API endpoints, data services) for a specific dataset with format, size, and access URL information.
      tags:
      - Distributions
      parameters:
      - name: datasetId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Unique dataset identifier
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Distributions returned
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  result:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Distribution'
components:
  schemas:
    Distribution:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        title:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        description:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        accessURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
        downloadURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
        format:
          type: string
          description: File format URI from the EU file type vocabulary
        mediaType:
          type: string
          description: MIME type
        byteSize:
          type: integer
        issued:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        modified:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        license:
          type: string
        conformsTo:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
externalDocs:
  description: EU Data Provider Manual
  url: https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/