Stad Gent

Stad Gent (City of Ghent, Belgium) publishes its open data through the Open Data Portal at data.stad.gent, a tenant of the Opendatasoft (Huwise) platform holding about 316 datasets. The portal exposes the Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 (dataset catalog search, records queries, facets and exports in CSV, Parquet, GPX, DCAT and more), described by an OpenAPI 3.0.3 document served from the city's own host, plus the legacy v1 datasets API.

Stad Gent publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Catalog API and Dataset API. Tagged areas include Company, Government, Open Data, Belgium, and Smart City.

The Stad Gent catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Stad Gent’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 18 more developer resources.

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40.2/100 developing Agent 34/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract

Company Government Open Data Belgium Smart City Municipal Datasets

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 40.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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 Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it Ask about this →

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 17.0 — up to +16.6 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Stad Gent Catalog API

API to enumerate datasets

Stad Gent Dataset API

API to work on records

Stad Gent API pricing

Rate limits

Anonymous API calls: x-ratelimit-limit: 250000

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Stad Gent Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Stad Gent Context

9 classes · 21 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Stad Gent API Rules

56 rules · 52 error-severity 2 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Stad Gent Catalog Api Certification Overlay

2 actions · security · stad-gent-catalog-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Stad Gent Dataset Api Certification Overlay

2 actions · security · stad-gent-dataset-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 6

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

attachment

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

dataset

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

datasets

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

links

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

record

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

records

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Stad Gent Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Stad Gent Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Stad Gent Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Stad Gent Agentic Access

16 operations

16 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: stad-gent
name: Stad Gent
description: Stad Gent (City of Ghent, Belgium) publishes its open data through the Open Data Portal at data.stad.gent, a
  tenant of the Opendatasoft (Huwise) platform holding about 316 datasets. The portal exposes the Opendatasoft Explore API
  v2.1 (dataset catalog search, records queries, facets and exports in CSV, Parquet, GPX, DCAT and more), described by an
  OpenAPI 3.0.3 document served from the city's own host, plus the legacy v1 datasets API.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/stad-gent/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:eu-gov-keynote-2026-11-10
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-10 (local-v6; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-10'
modified: '2026-11-10'
tags:
- Company
- Government
- Open Data
- Belgium
- Smart City
- Municipal
- Datasets
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/stad-gent-agentic-access.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/stad-gent-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/stad-gent-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/stad-gent-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/stad-gent-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/stad-gent-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/stad-gent-conventions.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/stad-gent-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/stad-gent-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/stad-gent-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/stad-gent-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/stad-gent-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/stad-gent-hosts.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/stad-gent-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/stad-gent-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/stad-gent-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://data.stad.gent
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://data.stad.gent/terms/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://data.stad.gent/terms/terms-and-conditions/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://data.stad.gent/api-console/explore/v2.1/
apis:
- aid: stad-gent:stad-gent-catalog-api
  name: Stad Gent Catalog API
  description: API to enumerate datasets
  humanURL: https://data.stad.gent/api-console/explore/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://data.stad.gent/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/stad-gent-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-datasets-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-links-schema.json
- aid: stad-gent:stad-gent-dataset-api
  name: Stad Gent Dataset API
  description: API to work on records
  humanURL: https://data.stad.gent/api-console/explore/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://data.stad.gent/api/explore/v2.1
  tags:
  - Datasets
  tags_raw:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/stad-gent-dataset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-records-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-attachment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/stad-gent-links-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-10'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 30
  pass: local-v6

Stad Gent API — frequently asked questions

Does Stad Gent have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Stad Gent, including Stad Gent Catalog API and Stad Gent Dataset API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Stad Gent API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Stad Gent, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Stad Gent API?

Stad Gent uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Stad Gent Authentication.

Is the Stad Gent API ready for AI agents?

Stad Gent has a Kin Score of 40.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 34.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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