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Meta-data for data.gov.uk datasets

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An API providing metadata for all datasets listed on the data.gov.uk service, the UK government's open data portal. The metadata is published as a zipped CSV or JSON file, updated nightly, and includes historical dumps stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. It allows developers and data users to programmatically discover and track the datasets available on data.gov.uk, including their descriptions, publishers, formats, and update history, rather than the underlying data itself.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

Stored only in this browser. Runs go directly from your browser to the API — the key is never sent through our servers.

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

Full CKAN dataset record: resources, licence, organization, freshness.

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Dataset

Volume & freshness

Last upstream update
1 month ago
2026-07-08

License

No license declared upstream.

Documentation Data dictionary Versioning

Source: ckan

Machine-readable & source

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