# USAID Development Data Library API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/usaid/usaid-development-data-library-api/  
**Provider:** USAID — https://apis.io/providers/usaid/  
**Base URL:** https://data.usaid.gov/resource  
**Documentation:** https://data.usaid.gov

USAID Development Data Library API is one of 3 APIs that [USAID](https://apis.io/providers/usaid/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open Data, Development Datasets, SODA, and Socrata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The USAID Development Data Library (DDL) provides programmatic access to USAID's open datasets via the Socrata Open Data API (SODA). Developers can filter, query, and aggregate datasets covering development activities, projects, evaluations, and geographic data. An application token is required for higher rate limits. Data is also available in machine-readable format and feeds into data.gov.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://dev.socrata.com/consumers/getting-started.html
- **X-SODA-API** — https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html

## Other USAID APIs (2)

- [ForeignAssistance.gov Data API](https://apis.io/apis/usaid/foreignassistancegov-data-api/)
- [USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse API](https://apis.io/apis/usaid/usaid-development-experience-clearinghouse-api/)

## Tags

Open Data, Development Datasets, SODA, Socrata

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