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data.gov.au / Search Australian government datasets

Searches 100,000+ datasets published by Australian federal, state and local agencies. Answer: result.count and result.results, each with id, name (slug), title, notes (description), organization, licensetitle, metadatamodified, numresources, tags, resformat and resurl (the formats and links of its files). Up to 20 per call (about 8 KB each); data-gov-au-dataset gives one dataset's full resource list. fq takes Solr filters, e.g. organization:australian-bureau-of-statistics or resformat:CSV. No match answers count 0. Catalogue from data.gov.au (Australian Government). Each dataset carries its own licence (license_title, mostly CC BY 4.0): credit the publishing agency as that licence asks. Free, no key.

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Request parameters

fl query · optional
Fixed at id,name,title,notes,organization,license_title,metadata_modified,num_resources,tags,res_format,res_url. Leave it out.
fq query · optional
Solr filter query, e.g. organization:bureau-of-meteorology or res_format:CSV.
q query · optional
Search words, e.g. water quality.
rows query · optional
Datasets per call, 1 to 20. Default 10.
sort query · optional
Sort order. Default relevance.
start query · optional
Skip this many datasets, for paging.

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