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	`https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_create`
Update / Insert	`https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_upsert`
Query	`https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search`
Query (via SQL)	`https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql`

Querying »

Query example (first 5 results)

https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=4c5f9428-cb94-4b0e-a154-f8c59383d317&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=4c5f9428-cb94-4b0e-a154-f8c59383d317&q=jones

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "4c5f9428-cb94-4b0e-a154-f8c59383d317" WHERE title LIKE 'jones'

Example: Javascript »

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

  var data = {
    resource_id: '4c5f9428-cb94-4b0e-a154-f8c59383d317', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
  };
  $.ajax({
    url: 'https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
      alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
  });

Example: Python »

import urllib
url = 'https://admin.opendatani.gov.uk/ar/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=4c5f9428-cb94-4b0e-a154-f8c59383d317&limit=5&q=title:jones'  
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()