Milwaukee Open Data

aid: data-milwaukee-gov
name: Milwaukee Open Data
description: Milwaukee Open Data is a municipal government open-data portal for United States running CKAN. It exposes the
  CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 186 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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tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- Municipal Government
- United States
created: '2026-06-07'
modified: '2026-06-07'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: data-milwaukee-gov:catalog
  name: Milwaukee Open Data CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for Milwaukee Open Data, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 186 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.milwaukee.gov/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://data.milwaukee.gov
  baseURL: https://data.milwaukee.gov/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.milwaukee.gov
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://data.milwaukee.gov/api/3/action/status_show
  - type: x-ckan-version
    value: 2.9.11
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://data.milwaukee.gov
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/data-milwaukee-gov-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/data-milwaukee-gov-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/data-milwaukee-gov-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com