CKAN Data API

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://data.smartdublin.ie/en/api/3/action/datastore_create
Update / Insert https://data.smartdublin.ie/en/api/3/action/datastore_upsert
Query https://data.smartdublin.ie/en/api/3/action/datastore_search
Query (via SQL) https://data.smartdublin.ie/en/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql
Querying »
Example: Javascript »

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

        var data = {
          resource_id: 'aa7ff6df-b98d-4a8f-b502-91e17a19356e', // the resource id
          limit: 5, // get 5 results
          q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
        };
        $.ajax({
          url: 'https://data.smartdublin.ie/en/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://data.smartdublin.ie/en/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=aa7ff6df-b98d-4a8f-b502-91e17a19356e&limit=5&q=title:jones'  
      fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
      print fileobj.read()