Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Endpoints »

The Data API can be accessed via the following actions of the CKAN action API.

Create	`http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_create`
Update / Insert	`http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_upsert`
Query	`http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search`
Query (via SQL)	`http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search_sql`

OData	`http://data.ctdata.org/datastore/odata3.0/70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09`

Querying »

Query example (first 5 results)

http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09&q=jones

Query example (via SQL statement)

http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09" WHERE title LIKE 'jones'

OData example (first 5 results, skip 1)

http://data.ctdata.org/datastore/odata3.0/70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09?$top=5&$skip=1

OData example (first 5 results, return as OData JSON)

http://data.ctdata.org/datastore/odata3.0/70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09?$top=5&$format=json

Example: Javascript »

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

  var data = {
    resource_id: '70abea0c-587d-4835-bffc-75dd42f55a09', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
  };
  $.ajax({
    url: 'http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
      alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
  });

Example: Python »

import urllib
url = 'http://data.ctdata.org/api/action/datastore_search?limit=5&q=title:jones'
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()