ckan

CKAN Open Data portal tools (open.canada.ca): search 80,000+ Canadian government datasets by keyword or tag, get dataset details with resources, list federal organizations and thematic groups, retrieve individual resource metadata, and get portal-wide statistics. Descriptions truncated to save tokens.

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All tools accept lang: "en" | "fr". Open each tool below for its source-derived parameters.

`ckan_search_datasets`

Search Canada's Open Data portal (open.canada.ca) for datasets by keyword.

Use forfinding Canadian government datasets on any topic — environment,

search, dataset, open data, canada, government, federal, portal,

Parameter	Type	Default
`query`	`str`	`required`
`filters`	`str \| None`	`None`
`rows`	`int`	`10`
`start`	`int`	`0`
`sort`	`str`	`'relevance asc'`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_get_dataset_details`

Get full details for a specific Canadian Open Data dataset including all resources.

Use forretrieving complete metadata, resources list, and description for a

dataset, details, metadata, resources, files, open data, canada,

Parameter	Type	Default
`dataset_id`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_list_organizations`

List all Canadian federal government organizations on the Open Data portal.

Use fordiscovering which government departments and agencies publish open data,

organizations, departments, agencies, government, publishers, federal,

Parameter	Type	Default
`sort`	`str`	`'name asc'`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_search_by_tag`

Search Canadian Open Data portal datasets by tag or keyword label.

Use forfinding all datasets with a specific topic tag such as 'climate',

tag, label, topic, category, theme, search, datasets, open data,

Parameter	Type	Default
`tag`	`str`	`required`
`rows`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_get_resource`

Get details for a specific data resource (file) from Canada's Open Data portal.

Use forretrieving format, size, URL, and description for a known resource

resource, file, download, url, format, csv, excel, json, xml, pdf,

Parameter	Type	Default
`resource_id`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_list_groups`

List thematic dataset groups available on Canada's Open Data portal.

Use forbrowsing thematic collections of datasets organized by subject area

groups, themes, categories, subjects, collections, thematic, browse,

Parameter	Type	Default
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`ckan_get_dataset_stats`

Get aggregate statistics for Canada's Open Data portal (open.canada.ca).

Use forfinding out how many datasets are available on the portal, getting

statistics, stats, count, total, datasets, portal, summary, overview,

Parameter	Type	Default
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`