BC Data Catalogue API API

Overview

This API provides live access to the BC Data Catalogue. Further documentation on the API is available from http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/ Confirm the version of the API available from the catalogue by requesting https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3/action/status_show. Please note that you may experience issues when submitting requests to the delivery or test environment if using this [OpenAPI specification](https://github.com/bcgov/api-specs) in other API console viewers.

BC Data Catalogue API is an open data API from gov.bc.ca. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over plain HTTP. Its OpenAPI description documents 22 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

API key

HTTPS

No

CORS

Unknown

Category

Open Data

Base URL

https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3

Version

3.0.1

Endpoints

22

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2021-06-21

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3/action/organization_activity_list" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3/action/organization_activity_list", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/api/3/action/organization_activity_list",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions