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.

Create https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_create
Update / Insert https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_upsert
Query https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search
Query (via SQL) https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql
Querying »
Query example (first 5 results)

https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=266fac8f-4409-4db6-adf8-cb76f1450445&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=266fac8f-4409-4db6-adf8-cb76f1450445&q=jones

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "266fac8f-4409-4db6-adf8-cb76f1450445" WHERE title LIKE 'jones'

Example: Javascript »

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

  var data = {
    resource_id: '266fac8f-4409-4db6-adf8-cb76f1450445', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
  };
  $.ajax({
    url: 'https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
      alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
  });
Example: Python »
import urllib
url = 'https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/sr_Latn/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=266fac8f-4409-4db6-adf8-cb76f1450445&limit=5&q=title:jones'  
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()