data.gov.au Federal

data.gov.au Federal is the Australian Government's national open-data portal, run on CKAN and (per its own maintenance notice) operated under the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It exposes the CKAN Action API, a standardized machine-readable JSON interface over approximately 132,257 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. Its CKAN extensions (ckanext-datagovau and others) are published in the datagovau GitHub organization.

data.gov.au Federal is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Open Data, CKAN, Data Catalog, DCAT, and Government Data.

The data.gov.au Federal catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

data.gov.au Federal’s developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, documentation, and 18 more developer resources.

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22.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 38/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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Open Data CKAN Data Catalog DCAT Government Data National Government Australia Federal Government Public Sector

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 22.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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

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
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 24.2 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 27.4 — up to +14.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Government and Open Data	standard	24.9 (thin)	-	-
Open Data Portals (CKAN / DCAT)	standard	24.9 (thin)	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	standard	24.9 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 2

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

data.gov.au Federal CKAN Action API

CKAN Action API for data.gov.au Federal, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 132,257 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, package...

data.gov.au Federal API

data.gov.au Federal API as documented publicly: 15 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-21); not the provider's own document.

data.gov.au Federal API pricing

Not yet checked against data.gov.au Federal's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-04 from raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs...; 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.au Federal's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Data Gov Au Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Data Gov Au Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Data Gov Au Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Data Gov Au Context

5 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

data.gov.au Federal API Rules

10 rules · 8 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

GetApiActionResourceUpdateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApiSearchDatasetResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApi3ActionGroupListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApi3ActionResourcePatchResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Data Gov Au Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Data Gov Au Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

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 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: data-gov-au
name: data.gov.au Federal
description: data.gov.au Federal is the Australian Government's national open-data portal, run on CKAN and (per its own maintenance
  notice) operated under the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It exposes the CKAN Action API, a standardized machine-readable
  JSON interface over approximately 132,257 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. Its CKAN extensions (ckanext-datagovau and others) are published in the datagovau GitHub organization.
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/data-gov-au.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-au/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-25
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- National Government
- Australia
- Federal Government
- Public Sector
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-10-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/data-gov-au-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/data-gov-au-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/data-gov-au-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/data-gov-au-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/data-gov-au-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/data-gov-au-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/data-gov-au-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/data-gov-au-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/data-gov-au-conformance.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/data-gov-au-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/data-gov-au-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/data-gov-au-vendors.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/getting-started.html
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/data-gov-au-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://data.gov.au/data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/datagovau
- type: Plans
  url: plans/data-gov-au-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/data-gov-au-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/data-gov-au-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
apis:
- aid: data-gov-au:catalog
  name: data.gov.au Federal CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for data.gov.au Federal, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 132,257 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.gov.au/data/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://data.gov.au/data
  baseURL: https://data.gov.au/data/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.gov.au/data
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/status_show
- aid: data-gov-au:data-gov-au-api
  name: data.gov.au Federal API
  description: 'data.gov.au Federal API as documented publicly: 15 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by
    API Evangelist (2026-10-21);

    not the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api
  baseURL: http://demo.ckan.org
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/data-gov-au-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api-search-dataset-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api3-action-group-list-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/data-gov-au-get-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api3-action-resource-patch-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/data-gov-au-get-api-action-resource-update-response-schema.json
x-parent: open-government-australia
x-relationship: product
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: maintenance
  detail: Identity pass 2026-10-21. Every data.gov.au URL (/, /data, /data/api/3/action/status_show, www.) returned HTTP 503
    with a maintenance page titled "Australian Bureau of Statistics" stating "Data.gov.au is currently undergoing maintenance.
    We'll be back online on 22 October 2026." The pre-flight graded this 503 as a bot-challenge; the body shows it is scheduled
    maintenance, so existing data.gov.au pointers were kept (not dead) and no new on-site pointers (terms, privacy, support)
    could be verified or added. GitHub org datagovau verified (links to data.gov.au, hosts ckanext-datagovau).
  evidence:
  - url: https://data.gov.au/data
    status: 503
  - url: https://data.gov.au/
    status: 503
  - url: https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/status_show
    status: 503
  - url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/datagovau
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

data.gov.au Federal API — frequently asked questions

Does data.gov.au Federal have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from data.gov.au Federal, including data.gov.au Federal CKAN Action API and data.gov.au Federal API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the data.gov.au Federal API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for data.gov.au Federal, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the data.gov.au Federal API?

data.gov.au Federal uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Data Gov Au Authentication.

How much does the data.gov.au Federal API cost?

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

Is the data.gov.au Federal API ready for AI agents?

data.gov.au Federal has a Kin Score of 22.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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