Kanton Zürich

The Canton of Zurich (Kanton Zürich) is the most populous Swiss canton. Its administration publishes open government data through the Amt für Statistik und Daten metadata catalog (datenkatalog.statistik.zh.ch, ~740 datasets including 22 interfaces), a geoportal (geo.zh.ch), and a small set of public web services with published OpenAPI documents: the Tiefbauamt live traffic-count service (vdp.zh.ch) and the Bildungsstatistik BasicAPI for education data (bista.zh.ch).

Kanton Zürich publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Collector configuration API, Collector state API, Funktional API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Government, Open Data, Switzerland, Statistics, and Traffic.

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

Kanton Zürich’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, developer portal, and 18 more developer resources.

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37.2/100 thin Agent 24/100 agent aware Heartbeat 84/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts

Government Open Data Switzerland Statistics Traffic Education Geodata

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 37.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 1.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 6.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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 →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
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Access Clarity scores 8.5 — up to +18.3 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 14.3 — up to +11.1 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 6

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

Kanton Zürich Metadata Catalog Web Service

JSON web service of the cantonal open-data metadata catalog (dataset entries with distributions, licences, contact points), published by the Fachstelle OGD as dataset 1461.

Kanton Zürich Collector configuration API

Current MIV collector configuration.

Kanton Zürich Collector state API

Current MIV collector state.

Kanton Zürich Funktional API

The Funktional API from Kanton Zürich — 10 operation(s) for funktional.

Kanton Zürich Online Data API

Ongoing and calculated vehicle data and aggregations.

Kanton Zürich Tests API

The Tests API from Kanton Zürich — 2 operation(s) for tests.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kanton Zürich Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Zh Ch Context

9 classes · 45 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.

Kanton Zürich API Rules

55 rules · 47 error-severity 3 warn-severity 5 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

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

AggVdp

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectorCfg

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectorState

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Heartbeat

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VbvData

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Kanton Zürich Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kanton Zürich Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Kanton Zürich Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Kanton Zürich Agentic Access

19 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Portal

Portal

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 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Newsroom

Newsroom

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zh-ch
name: Kanton Zürich
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/footer/social-media-links/kantonzuerich.png.zhweb-transform/open-graph-teaser-image-large/kantonzuerich.1792785750348.png
description: 'The Canton of Zurich (Kanton Zürich) is the most populous Swiss canton. Its administration publishes open government
  data through the Amt für Statistik und Daten metadata catalog (datenkatalog.statistik.zh.ch, ~740 datasets including 22
  interfaces), a geoportal (geo.zh.ch), and a small set of public web services with published OpenAPI documents: the Tiefbauamt
  live traffic-count service (vdp.zh.ch) and the Bildungsstatistik BasicAPI for education data (bista.zh.ch).'
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/zh-ch/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)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-10'
modified: '2026-11-10'
tags:
- Government
- Open Data
- Switzerland
- Statistics
- Traffic
- Education
- Geodata
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/zh-ch-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/zh-ch-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/zh-ch-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/zh-ch-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/zh-ch-data-model.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://app.bugbounty.ch/public/engagement/details/43f98579-7afc-400e-a5fa-f64c15e2bb90
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/zh-ch-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/zh-ch-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/zh-ch-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/zh-ch-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/zh-ch-hosts.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zh-ch-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/zh-ch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zh-ch-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zh.ch
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zh.ch/de/politik-staat/statistik-daten.html
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://datenkatalog.statistik.zh.ch/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/statistikZH
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.zh.ch/de/nutzungshinweise.html
- type: Portal
  url: https://geo.zh.ch/
apis:
- aid: zh-ch:metadata-catalog
  name: Kanton Zürich Metadata Catalog Web Service
  description: JSON web service of the cantonal open-data metadata catalog (dataset entries with distributions, licences,
    contact points), published by the Fachstelle OGD as dataset 1461.
  humanURL: https://datenkatalog.statistik.zh.ch/
  baseURL: https://daten.statistik.zh.ch/ogd
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zh.ch/de/politik-staat/statistik-daten/datenkatalog.html
- aid: zh-ch:zh-ch-collector-configuration-api
  name: Kanton Zürich Collector configuration API
  description: Current MIV collector configuration.
  humanURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/openapi
  baseURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/pws
  tags:
  - Collector configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zh-ch-collector-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.web.statistik.zh.ch/ogd/data/tba/tba_miv_api_quick_start_datenverarbeitung.pdf
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/zh-ch-collector-cfg-schema.json
- aid: zh-ch:zh-ch-collector-state-api
  name: Kanton Zürich Collector state API
  description: Current MIV collector state.
  humanURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/openapi
  baseURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/pws
  tags:
  - Collector state
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zh-ch-collector-state-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.web.statistik.zh.ch/ogd/data/tba/tba_miv_api_quick_start_datenverarbeitung.pdf
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/zh-ch-collector-state-schema.json
- aid: zh-ch:zh-ch-funktional-api
  name: Kanton Zürich Funktional API
  description: The Funktional API from Kanton Zürich — 10 operation(s) for funktional.
  humanURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/openapi
  baseURL: https://www.bista.zh.ch/basicapi
  tags:
  - Funktional
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zh-ch-funktional-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.web.statistik.zh.ch/ogd/data/tba/tba_miv_api_quick_start_datenverarbeitung.pdf
- aid: zh-ch:zh-ch-online-data-api
  name: Kanton Zürich Online Data API
  description: Ongoing and calculated vehicle data and aggregations.
  humanURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/openapi
  baseURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/pws
  tags:
  - Online Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zh-ch-online-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.web.statistik.zh.ch/ogd/data/tba/tba_miv_api_quick_start_datenverarbeitung.pdf
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/zh-ch-vbv-data-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/zh-ch-agg-vdp-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/zh-ch-heartbeat-schema.json
- aid: zh-ch:zh-ch-tests-api
  name: Kanton Zürich Tests API
  description: The Tests API from Kanton Zürich — 2 operation(s) for tests.
  humanURL: https://vdp.zh.ch/openapi
  baseURL: https://www.bista.zh.ch/basicapi
  tags:
  - Tests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zh-ch-tests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.web.statistik.zh.ch/ogd/data/tba/tba_miv_api_quick_start_datenverarbeitung.pdf
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-10'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v6

Kanton Zürich API — frequently asked questions

Does Kanton Zürich have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Kanton Zürich, including Kanton Zürich Metadata Catalog Web Service, Kanton Zürich Collector configuration API and Kanton Zürich Collector state API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kanton Zürich API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Kanton Zürich, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Kanton Zürich API?

Kanton Zürich uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kanton Zürich Authentication.

Is the Kanton Zürich API ready for AI agents?

Kanton Zürich has a Kin Score of 37.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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