London Datastore

aid: data-london-gov-uk
name: London Datastore
description: London Datastore is a open data portal open-data portal for GB 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
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: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/data-london-gov-uk.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-london-gov-uk/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
- Open Data Portal
- GB
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: data-london-gov-uk:catalog
  name: London Datastore CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for London Datastore, 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.london.gov.uk/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://data.london.gov.uk
  baseURL: https://data.london.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.london.gov.uk
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://data.london.gov.uk/api/3/action/status_show
common:
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://data.london.gov.uk/about/terms-and-conditions
- type: SignUp
  url: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/registered-social-landlord-housing-stock-2n83y
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://data.london.gov.uk/about/privacy-policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/data-london-gov-uk-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://data.london.gov.uk
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/data-london-gov-uk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/data-london-gov-uk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/data-london-gov-uk-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- url: https://data.london.gov.uk/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com