/datagov/datasets

POST /api/datagov/datasets

Price: 5 credits

Get a U.S. government open dataset by its slug

How to use it

Get a single Data.gov dataset by its slug. Returns title, description, identifier, license, rights, keywords, themes, publisher, publishing organization, contact point, and the downloadable distributions (files with formats and URLs).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• dataset string required — Dataset slug (URL identifier) (examples: "electric-vehicle-charging-stations", "electric-vehicle-population-data"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "DatagovDataset")
• alias string required
• description string nullable
• identifier string nullable
• access_level string nullable
• license string nullable
• rights string nullable
• issued string nullable
• modified string nullable
• temporal string nullable
• accrual_periodicity string nullable
• last_harvested_date string nullable
• landing_page string nullable
• publisher string nullable
• bureau_code array (default: [])
• program_code array (default: [])
• language array (default: [])
• keywords array (default: [])
• themes array (default: [])
• spatial string nullable
• has_spatial boolean (default: false)
• popularity integer nullable
• data_quality boolean nullable
• is_part_of string nullable
• harvest_record_url string nullable
• contact_point object nullable
  • @type string (default: "DatagovContactPoint")
  • name string nullable
  • email string nullable
• organization object nullable
  • @type string (default: "DatagovDatasetOrganization")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • organization_type string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • aliases array (default: [])
• distributions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DatagovDistribution")
  • description string nullable
  • format string nullable
  • media_type string nullable
  • download_url string nullable
  • access_url string nullable
  • described_by string nullable
  • described_by_type string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Dataset not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.