Our World in Data

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OWID indicators — curated catalog of high-signal global datasets (energy, climate, health, demographics, economy). No auth.

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fetch_indicatorrequired: slug

Fetch tidy long-format data for an Our World in Data indicator by slug (e.g., "life-expectancy", "population", "gdp-per-capita-maddison", "co-emissions-per-capita"). PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for DEEP-HI

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
slugreqstringOWID chart slug
countryoptstringFilter to a single entity
since_yearoptnumberDrop rows before this year
until_yearoptnumberDrop rows after this year
limitoptnumberCap rows (default 5000)
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get_indicator_metadatarequired: slug

Fetch chart metadata for an OWID indicator slug: title, subtitle, note, and per-column details (unit, description, data producer/citation, last_updated, next_update dates). Use to confirm a slug is va

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
slugreqstringOWID chart slug
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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/owid/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/owid/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_popular_indicators","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("list_popular_indicators", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("owid indicators — curated catalog of high-signal global datasets (energy, climate, health, demographics, economy)");