ITU Methodology API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ITU DataHub Methodology API
  version: '2'
  summary: Undocumented public JSON API behind the ITU DataHub ICT statistics portal.
  description: 'ITU publishes **no** OpenAPI, no reference documentation, and no terms of programmatic use for this API. This document is an API Evangelist **observed-behaviour** description: every path, parameter, status code and response shape below was recorded from live, anonymous HTTP calls against `https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2` on 2026-07-25/26. Nothing here is invented — where a behaviour was not observed it is simply absent.


    The route templates were recovered from the DataHub Next.js client bundle (`datahub.itu.int/_next/static/chunks/*.js`), which hardcodes the base URL `https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2`, and each recovered route was then called to confirm it exists and to capture its real response. Treat this surface as an internal backend that happens to be public rather than as a supported product API: it can change without notice.


    No authentication of any kind is required. No API key, no `Referer`, no `Origin`, no `User-Agent`. `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` is returned on every response. The service runs on AWS API Gateway behind CloudFront (`x-amzn-requestid`, `x-amz-cf-id` response headers).'
  contact:
    name: ITU ICT Data & Analytics Division
    email: indicators@itu.int
    url: https://datahub.itu.int/
  license:
    name: ITU Terms of Use
    url: https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/terms-of-use.aspx
  x-apievangelist-provenance:
    method: derived
    derived_from: live anonymous HTTP probes + the public DataHub client bundle
    probed: '2026-07-26'
    provider_published_spec: false
    note: Derived by API Evangelist from observed responses. ITU has not published, reviewed, or endorsed this description.
servers:
- url: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  description: Production (AWS API Gateway + CloudFront). Anonymous.
tags:
- name: Methodology
  description: Dataset provenance and the owning ITU divisions.
paths:
  /methodology/dataset:
    get:
      operationId: listDatasets
      tags:
      - Methodology
      summary: List the source datasets behind DataHub
      description: Returns the ITU datasets that feed DataHub — short name, type (quantitative or qualitative), the owning ITU division and its contact email, whether the dataset is publicly visible, and whether it has frozen public data.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The dataset inventory.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Dataset'
              examples:
                wti:
                  value:
                  - datasetID: 1
                    datasetShortName: WTI
                    datasetType: Quantitative
                    teamShortName: IDA
                    teamName: ICT DATA & ANALYTICS DIVISION
                    email: indicators@itu.int
                    publiclyVisible: true
                    hasFrozenPublicData: true
components:
  schemas:
    Dataset:
      type: object
      properties:
        datasetID:
          type: integer
        datasetShortName:
          type: string
        datasetType:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Quantitative
          - Qualitative
        teamShortName:
          type: string
        teamName:
          type: string
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
        publiclyVisible:
          type: boolean
        hasFrozenPublicData:
          type: boolean
externalDocs:
  description: ITU DataHub portal (the only human surface for this API)
  url: https://datahub.itu.int/