Essex Open Data

aid: data-essex-gov-uk
name: Essex Open Data
description: Essex Open Data is a local council open-data portal for United Kingdom running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN catalog
  API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately an open 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/data-essex-gov-uk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- Local Council
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: data-essex-gov-uk:catalog
  name: Essex Open Data CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for Essex Open Data, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of an open 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://data.essex.gov.uk/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://data.essex.gov.uk
  baseURL: https://data.essex.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://data.essex.gov.uk
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://data.essex.gov.uk/api/3/action/status_show
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://data.essex.gov.uk
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/data-essex-gov-uk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/data-essex-gov-uk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/data-essex-gov-uk-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com