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.

Query https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search
Query (via SQL) https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search_sql
Querying »
Query example (first 5 results)

https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=6873af50-ef57-4115-a339-f5c2539299e2&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'my_resource_query')

https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=6873af50-ef57-4115-a339-f5c2539299e2&q=my_resource_query

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "6873af50-ef57-4115-a339-f5c2539299e2" WHERE title LIKE 'my_resource_title'

Example: Javascript »

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

var data = {
  resource_id: '6873af50-ef57-4115-a339-f5c2539299e2', // the resource id
  limit: 5, // get 5 results
  q: 'my_resource_query' // query for 'my_resource_query'
};
$.ajax({
  url: 'https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search',
  data: data,
  dataType: 'jsonp',
  success: function(data) {
    alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
  }
});
Example: Python » 
import urllib
url = 'https://data.ouka.fi/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=6873af50-ef57-4115-a339-f5c2539299e2&limit=5&q=title:my_resource_title'
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()