SSEN Transmission Open Data Explore API
The Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 served from the SSEN Transmission Open Data Portal, exposing 60 CC BY 4.0 transmission datasets — Electricity Ten Year Statement circuits and fault levels, ground investigation points and related network records — through 16 read-only GET endpoints for catalog search, dataset records, facets and exports (CSV, Parquet, GPX, DCAT). Verified anonymously; an optional apikey query parameter exists for private datasets.
SSEN Transmission Open Data Explore API is one of 4 APIs that Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Open Data, Transmission, Catalog, and Scotland. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and a support channel.
This API exposes 16 operations across 16 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v2.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ssentransmission.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
SSEN Transmission Open Data Explore API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as apikey (apikey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apikey— API key to make authenticated requests.
Paths & Operations 16
Across 16 paths, the API surfaces 16 operations — 16 GET. They span 2 resource areas: Catalog, Dataset. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
API to enumerate datasets
API to work on records
Schemas 9
The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are dataset (9 properties), record (4 properties), facet_value_enumeration (4 properties), datasets (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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