data.gov.au

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Australia's open-data catalogue (data.gov.au / CKAN) — search datasets, organizations, and resources across federal and state government.

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free tier50 calls/day

Tools

packagerequired: id

Single package (dataset) by id or name.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idreqstring—
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organizations

data.gov.au, Australia's federal open-data CKAN catalogue — list the publishing organizations, the Australian government agencies and departments (ABS, Geoscience Australia, state bodies) that hold da

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
limitoptnumber—
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groups

List all thematic groups (topic categories) in the data.gov.au CKAN catalogue with names and slugs; useful for discovering available subject-area filters.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
limitoptnumber—
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tags

List or keyword-search tags in the data.gov.au CKAN catalogue; returns tag names useful as filters in `search`.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
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resourcerequired: id

Single resource (downloadable file) by id.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idreqstring—
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/datagov-au/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/datagov-au/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{"query": "hello"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search", {"query":"example"});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("australia's open-data catalogue (data");