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EU Open Data Portal Datasets API

Search and retrieve EU open datasets

EU Open Data Portal Datasets API is one of 5 APIs that EU Open Data Portal publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Datasets. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and API documentation.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/search.

2 operations 2 paths 8 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://data.europa.eu/sparql
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Datasets 2

Search and retrieve EU open datasets

GET
/datasets
Search datasets
searchDatasets 7 params → 200400
GET
/datasets/{datasetId}
Get dataset by ID
getDataset 2 params → 200404

Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Dataset (18 properties), Distribution (12 properties), DatasetSummary (10 properties), ContactPoint (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

FacetValue
object
3 properties
Publisher
object
3 properties
TemporalCoverage
object
2 properties
DatasetSummary
object
10 properties
Dataset
object
18 properties
Distribution
object
12 properties
DatasetSearchResponse
object
2 properties
ContactPoint
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

eu-open-data-portal-datasets-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs EU Open Data Portal publishes across the network.

EU Open Data Portal SPARQL API
EU Open Data Portal Catalogs API
EU Open Data Portal Distributions API
EU Open Data Portal Vocabularies API