CKAN Demo

CKAN Demo is a organization open-data portal running CKAN. It exposes the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 13 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.

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CKAN Demo CKAN Action API

CKAN Action API for CKAN Demo, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 13 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, package_list, organiza...

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aid: demo-ckan-org
name: CKAN Demo
description: >-
  CKAN Demo is a organization open-data portal running CKAN.
  It exposes the CKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 13 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: organization
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/demo-ckan-org/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Data Catalog
  - DCAT
  - Organization
  - Global
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: demo-ckan-org:catalog
    name: CKAN Demo CKAN Action API
    description: >-
      CKAN Action API for CKAN Demo, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 13 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://demo.ckan.org/api/3/action/.
    humanURL: https://demo.ckan.org
    baseURL: https://demo.ckan.org/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://demo.ckan.org
      - type: x-api-endpoint
        url: https://demo.ckan.org/api/3/action/status_show
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://demo.ckan.org
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/demo-ckan-org-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/demo-ckan-org-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/demo-ckan-org-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]