data.gov.au CKAN API
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Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the data.gov.au CKAN API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the data.gov.au CKAN API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fdata.gov.au%2Fdata-gov-au" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fdata.gov.au%2Fdata-gov-au" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with data.gov.au CKAN API.
Search datasets with full-text and faceted queries
List all dataset, tag, group, and organization names
Read dataset and resource details
Browse datasets within a group or organization
Track recently changed packages and activity
Use Cases
Patterns agents use data.gov.au CKAN API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Open-data discovery
Analysts and apps need to find relevant government datasets fast. The data.gov.au CKAN API searches packages with full-text and faceted queries and returns dataset details, so a tool can surface the right dataset for a question.
Search packages for a keyword and return the matching datasets with their resource details
Dataset update monitoring
Data teams watch for new and updated datasets. The API lists recently changed packages and package activity, so a monitor can detect updates to a dataset of interest and trigger a refresh.
List recently changed packages and flag any update to a watched dataset
Agent-driven research assistant
A research agent can gather open data on request. Through Jentic, an agent resolves a question into searching packages, reading the top dataset's details, and following its resources to the underlying files.
Search for datasets on a topic, read the best match's details, and return its resource links
Key Endpoints
15 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for data.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/action/package_search
Search datasets
GET
/action/package_show
Get dataset details
GET
/action/package_list
List all dataset names
GET
/action/resource_show
Get resource details
GET
/action/organization_list
List organizations
GET
/action/group_package_show
List datasets in a group
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
data.gov.au needs no key, so the work is just CKAN's action-style query parameters and JSON. With Jentic One you install once, import the read operations from the API Directory, and point an agent at them.
Permission scoping
Every operation is a public read, and datasets and resources are addressed by id or name parameters, so you can scope an agent to specific searches and reads.
Credential isolation
There is no credential to handle: the portal is public, so nothing is stored and no secret ever reaches the agent's prompt or logs.
Intent-based discovery
Agents find the right CKAN read through Jentic's intent search, matching a request like searching Australian open data to the matching data.gov.au operation.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using data.gov.au CKAN API through Jentic.
Do I need an API key for the data.gov.au API?
No. The CKAN portal is a public read service, so there is no key to request and nothing to store. Jentic One sends each request straight through.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the data.gov.au API?
Yes. Every operation is a public read, and you import only the ones an agent needs, so it can search datasets while every other operation stays unavailable.
What is CKAN?
CKAN is the open-source data-portal platform behind data.gov.au. Its action API exposes datasets (packages), resources, tags, groups, and organizations through consistent read operations.
How current is the data?
The portal reflects what Australian agencies have published, and the recently-changed and activity operations let a tool see when datasets were last updated.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for data.gov.au?
data.gov.au documents its CKAN action API in prose rather than publishing a machine-readable spec. Jentic generated this OpenAPI description from that documentation and keeps it validated so agents can call it reliably.
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