Opendata Canada

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open.canada.ca CKAN catalogue — search and retrieve Canadian federal open datasets and organizations. Keyless.

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Tools

package

Dataset by id/slug.

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organizations

List all Government of Canada organizations that publish datasets on open.canada.ca, returning name, title, description, and dataset count for each (up to optional limit, default 100).

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groups

List the subject-area themes used across open.canada.ca (e.g. Nature And Environment, Science And Technology, Health And Safety), ranked by dataset count. Each theme includes an fq filter string to pa

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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/opendata-canada/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/opendata-canada/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{}}}'

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", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("open");