# Stad Gent

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/stad-gent/  
**Website:** https://data.stad.gent  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 40.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 73.2 |
| Contract Quality | 65.1 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Access Clarity | 17.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 30.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | paginated |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **Stad Gent Catalog API** — API to enumerate datasets
- **Stad Gent Dataset API** — API to work on records

## Agentic access (1)

- **Stad Gent Agentic Access** — 16 operations

## Security (3)

- **Stad Gent Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Stad Gent Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Stad Gent Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Government, Open Data, Belgium, Smart City, Municipal, Datasets

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/stad-gent/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.