UK Power Networks Open Data Explore API v2.1
The current read-only REST API behind the UK Power Networks Open Data Portal, served from the company's own opendatasoft.com subdomain under an Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 contract. Sixteen GET endpoints cover catalogue search, dataset metadata, record query with an ODSQL where/select/group_by dialect, facets, attachments, and bulk exports in CSV, JSON, Parquet, GeoJSON, GPX and DCAT-AP. 136 UK Power Networks datasets are catalogued: live faults from the Distribution Network Management System, carbon intensity, the embedded capacity register, LTDS tables, flexibility dispatches and tenders, curtailment events, network losses, substation and LV-feeder smart meter aggregates, GIS asset and boundary layers, and the OZEV National Chargepoint Register. Catalogue metadata answers anonymously; records for most datasets require a free account API key passed as an apikey query parameter. Anonymous rate limit observed at 10,000 calls per day.
UK Power Networks Open Data Explore API v2.1 is one of 2 APIs that UK Power Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Open Data, Electricity, Grid, Network Infrastructure, and Network Usage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, API documentation, SDKs, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.
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://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
UK Power Networks Open Data Explore API v2.1 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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