Gouvernement ouvert Canada (FR)

aid: ouvert-canada-ca
name: Gouvernement ouvert Canada (FR)
description: Gouvernement ouvert Canada (FR) is a national government open-data portal for Canada running CKAN. It exposes
  the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 47,344 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/ouvert-canada-ca/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Data Catalog
- DCAT
- Government Data
- National Government
- Canada
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ouvert-canada-ca:catalog
  name: Gouvernement ouvert Canada (FR) CKAN Action API
  description: CKAN Action API for Gouvernement ouvert Canada (FR), a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of
    47,344 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://ouvert.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/.
  humanURL: https://ouvert.canada.ca/data
  baseURL: https://ouvert.canada.ca/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://ouvert.canada.ca/data
  - type: x-api-endpoint
    url: https://ouvert.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/status_show
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://ouvert.canada.ca/data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ouvert-canada-ca-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ouvert-canada-ca-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ouvert-canada-ca-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com