Open Government Canada

Open Government Canada 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.

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Open Government Canada CKAN Action API

CKAN Action API for Open Government Canada, a consistent JSON-over-HTTP interface over a catalog of 47,344 datasets. Standard actions include package_search, package_show, packa...

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aid: open-canada-ca
name: Open Government Canada
description: >-
  Open Government Canada 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
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-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: open-canada-ca:catalog
    name: Open Government Canada CKAN Action API
    description: >-
      CKAN Action API for Open Government Canada, 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://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/.
    humanURL: https://open.canada.ca/data
    baseURL: https://open.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://open.canada.ca/data
      - type: x-api-endpoint
        url: https://open.canada.ca/data/api/3/action/status_show
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://open.canada.ca/data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/open-canada-ca-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/open-canada-ca-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/open-canada-ca-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]