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Meta-data for data.gov.uk datasets

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A dataset containing the metadata for all datasets listed on the data.gov.uk service, the UK Government's open-data portal. It is provided as a zipped CSV or JSON file and published nightly, allowing users to track what datasets are available and how their metadata changes over time. Historical dumps have been archived to an Amazon S3 bucket. The dataset is maintained by the UK Government and is useful for building tools or catalogues that index or monitor the contents of data.gov.uk.A dataset of all the meta-data for all of the datasets available through the data.gov.uk service. This is provided as a zipped CSV or JSON file. It is published nightly. Updates: 27 Sep 2017: we've moved all the previous dumps to an S3 bucket at https://dgu-ckan-metadata-dumps.s3-eu-west-1.amazon...

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Data access

CKAN dataset (file distributions)

A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.

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Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://data.gov.uk/api/3/action/package_show?id=data_gov_uk-datasets' -H 'Accept: application/json'

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Dataset

Volume & freshness

Last upstream update
1 month ago
2026-07-08

License

No license declared upstream.

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Distributions (2)

http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.2.3/api.html

http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.2.3/api.html
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https://data.gov.uk/api

https://data.gov.uk/api
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