data.gov.uk CKAN Publishing Service

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
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ckan-publishing-service-gov-uk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- National Government
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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: 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com