data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service is a national government open-data portal for United Kingdom running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 57,757 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs CKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other CKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Open Data, CKAN, Data Catalog, DCAT, and Government Data.

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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9.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Open Data CKAN Data Catalog DCAT Government Data National Government United Kingdom

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 9.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The CKAN Action API

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

63 core of 134 operations graded · api-commons/open-data

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service CKAN Action API

CKAN Action API for data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 57,757 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, packag...

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service API pricing

Not yet checked against data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-04 from raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ckan-publishing-...; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free / Open Data free	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Default: see portal documentation requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ckan Publishing Service Gov Uk Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ckan Publishing Service Gov Uk Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ckan Publishing Service Gov Uk Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ckan Publishing Service Gov Uk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk
name: data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service
description: data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service is a national government open-data portal for United Kingdom running CKAN.
  It exposes the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 57,757 datasets, supporting
  programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs CKAN, it shares a consistent API surface
  with every other CKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.
kind: government
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- National Government
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk:catalog
  name: data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog
    of 57,757 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, package_list, organization_list, group_list,
    tag_list, and resource_search; datastore_search is available where the DataStore extension is enabled. Base URL https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk
  baseURL: https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/3/action
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Action API
  - Open Data
  - Catalog
  - REST
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Website
    url: https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/3/action/package_search?rows=0
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- url: https://dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service API — frequently asked questions

Does data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service, including data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service CKAN Action API.

How much does the data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service API ready for AI agents?

data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service has a Kin Score of 9.6 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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