Open Data
Government and civic open data, public datasets, and reference data.
Open Data on the APIs.io network indexes 91 providers publishing 417 APIs across this industry vertical.
Notable providers include Wikidata, Agricultural Statistics Service, KonbiniAPI, OpenStreetMap, USPTO, US Census Bureau, and 85 more — each profile links out to that provider’s APIs, capabilities, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related industries: Government & Public Sector, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Aerospace & Defense, and Climate & Sustainability. Browse every industry vertical at industries.apis.io.
About this industry
Open-data APIs — government and civic data portals, public-domain reference datasets, scientific and research data, and the broader open-data ecosystem that powers transparency and research.
Providers (91)
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It provides structured linked data for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects... | 5 | developing |
| Agricultural Statistics Service | The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) whose mission is to support the United States, its agricul... | 4 | developing |
| KonbiniAPI | KonbiniAPI is the social data layer for Instagram and TikTok, normalizing real-time public profile, post, video, comment, audio, location, and search data into a consistent Acti... | 1 | developing |
| OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free, editable map of the world. The OSM ecosystem exposes a family of public REST APIs: the main editing API (v0.6) f... | 3 | developing |
| USPTO | The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency responsible for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. USPTO provides a suite of developer... | 6 | developing |
| US Census Bureau | The U.S. Census Bureau is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. Established in 1902 and part of the U.S. Departmen... | 7 | developing |
| Trefle | An open, freely accessible botanical data source and REST API for plant information covering over 400,000 plant species with taxonomy, morphology, growth requirements, and geogr... | 1 | developing |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal federal statistical agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and pro... | 1 | developing |
| Air Quality Programmatic APIs | Air Quality Programmatic APIs provide real-time and forecast air quality data from 11,000+ monitoring stations in 1,000+ cities worldwide. APIs deliver Air Quality Index (AQI) m... | 2 | developing |
| OpenMercantil | OpenMercantil is an independent public-data API for Spanish company intelligence. It indexes the Boletin Oficial del Registro Mercantil (BORME) and cross-references it with 29+ ... | 1 | developing |
| Weather.gov | Weather.gov is the official website of the National Weather Service (NWS), operated by NOAA within the US Department of Commerce. The NWS provides weather, hydrologic, and clima... | 1 | developing |
| Danish Meteorological Institutes | The Danish Meteorological Institute is a government agency responsible for providing meteorological and climate services in Denmark. DMI publishes weather observations, climate ... | 1 | developing |
| TheSportsDB | An open, crowd-sourced sports database of artwork and metadata with a free sports API in JSON format. TheSportsDB provides data on sports leagues, teams, players, events, venues... | 1 | developing |
| The Bureau of Economic Analysis | The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides economic data to policymakers, businesses, and the general public. The BE... | 1 | developing |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the U.S. federal regulator for commodity futures and options markets. The CFTC publishes the weekly Commitments of Traders (CO... | 3 | developing |
| 2020 Police Brutality | This repository accumulates and contextualizes evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests. The goal is to assist journalists, politicians, prosecutors, a... | 1 | developing |
| GovInfo | The GovInfo API, provided by the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), provides services for developers and webmasters to access GovInfo content and metadata, including searc... | 1 | developing |
| DiscGolfAPI | DiscGolfAPI is a free, read-only public API that publishes structured JSON data about disc golf courses for developers, clubs, publishers, apps, and AI systems. It provides mach... | 1 | developing |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services dedicated to improving the quality and ava... | 3 | thin |
| PostalCodes.info | Postal-code lookup, search, country exports, and address validation worldwide. PostalCodes.info publishes a same-origin reference API and bulk CSV / JSON / XLSX downloads for 12... | 1 | thin |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the U.S. federal agency that supervises banks, lenders, and other financial companies, enforces federal consumer financial law... | 3 | thin |
| TIER | TIER Mobility was a Berlin-headquartered shared electric micromobility operator founded in 2018 by Lawrence Leuschner, Julian Blessin, and Matthias Laug, providing e-scooter, e-... | 1 | thin |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with consume... | 2 | thin |
| Chicago Transit Authority | The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the public transit operator for the City of Chicago and 35 surrounding suburbs, operating the second largest public transit system in the ... | 4 | thin |
| Social Security Administration | The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a U.S. federal agency that administers Social Security programs including retirement, disability (SSDI), and survivor benefits. SSA's... | 4 | thin |
| Science Museum Group | The Science Museum Group operates five UK science and technology museums: the Science Museum (London), the Science and Industry Museum (Manchester), the National Railway Museum ... | 1 | thin |
| United States Census Bureau | The U.S. Census Bureau is the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. The Census Bureau has been rolling out datasets via APIs, providing program... | 3 | thin |
| VA Lighthouse | VA Lighthouse is the US Department of Veterans Affairs' developer API platform. Published at developer.va.gov with production endpoints at api.va.gov, Lighthouse exposes 22+ API... | 23 | thin |
| Department of Energy | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides extensive open data and APIs across its national laboratories and program offices. Notable APIs are published by the Energy Informat... | 6 | thin |
| Lens | Lens is an open knowledge platform from Cambia that aggregates global scholarly works and patent records and exposes them through a REST API. The versioned API supports rich Ela... | 1 | thin |
| US Department of Defense | The US Department of Defense is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of the United States. This includes overseeing the Arm... | 4 | thin |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Analysis Tools | The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for collecting, analysing, and disseminating crime, criminal-justice, expe... | 2 | thin |
| US Army Corps of Engineers | The US Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency that plays a critical role in managing the nation's water resources and infrastructure. They are responsible for building and ... | 3 | thin |
| US Bureau of Labor Statistics | The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in t... | 1 | thin |
| Data Commons | Data Commons is an open knowledge graph initiative led by Google that aggregates and harmonizes the world's public data into a single graph, making global statistical data simpl... | 6 | thin |
| US Army | The US Army is the largest branch of the United States military and is responsible for conducting ground combat operations. Its mission is to defend the nation and support human... | 2 | thin |
| CMS — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the U.S. federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that administers Medicare, Medicaid, the Childre... | 10 | thin |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Founded in 1855 as the first hospital in the United States dedicated to the healthcare of children, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a 692-bed flagship pediatric ac... | 5 | thin |
| US Department of Commerce | The US Department of Commerce is responsible for promoting economic growth and job creation in the United States. It oversees various programs and initiatives aimed at supportin... | 7 | thin |
| Energy Information Administration | The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is committed to its free and open data by making it available through an Application Programming Interface (API) and its open da... | 1 | thin |
| Smithsonian Institution | The Smithsonian Institution provides open access APIs to its collections of over 22 million objects, artworks, and natural history specimens from 19 museums, 21 libraries, and 9... | 1 | thin |
| Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency that provides health coverage to more than 160 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid, the Child... | 9 | thin |
| Department of Homeland Security | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet-level federal agency responsible for protecting the nation from terrorism, securing borders, enforcing immigration la... | 6 | thin |
| Country.io | Country.io is a small open data project that publishes a set of static JSON files mapping ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes to common reference data: country names, capital citie... | 1 | thin |
| US Patent and Trademark Office | The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is responsible for granting patents and registering trademarks to protect intellectual property in the United States. The USPTO examin... | 2 | thin |
| US Senate | The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of Congress, responsible for representing the interests of the individual states and ensuring that federal legislation is pas... | 1 | thin |
| US Space Command | US Space Command (USSPACECOM) is a unified combatant command in the United States Department of Defense responsible for conducting operations in, from, and through space to dete... | 1 | thin |
| USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) | The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the US Department of Agriculture. ARS conducts research to develop and implement soluti... | 2 | thin |
| NASA Open APIs | NASA Open APIs is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's unified, public developer portal exposing space, earth science, planetary, heliophysics, and bioscience dat... | 17 | thin |
| PodcastIndex | The Podcast Index (Podcast Index LLC) is a software developer focused partnership that provides tools and data to anyone who aspires to create new and exciting Podcast experienc... | 1 | thin |
| US Copyright Office | The US Copyright Office is a government agency responsible for administering and enforcing copyright laws in the United States. The office is responsible for registering and doc... | 4 | thin |
| National Energy System Operator | The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is the independent operator responsible for planning and operating Great Britain's electricity and gas networks. NESO publishes operat... | 1 | thin |
| Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts | The Administrative Office of the United States Courts is the administrative agency of the United States federal court system, established in 1939. It provides legislative, admin... | 2 | thin |
| EU Open Data Portal | Discover the single point of access to open data from European countries, EU institutions, agencies and bodies and other European countries. | 2 | thin |
| NHS England Digital | NHS England (incorporating the former NHS Digital and NHSX) provides national digital, data, and technology services for the NHS in England. The organization operates the Spine,... | 7 | thin |
| New York Public Library What's On The Menu | The New York Public Library's What's On The Menu project is a digital collection that showcases over 17,000 historical restaurant menus from the New York City area dating back t... | 1 | thin |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | ClinicalTrials.gov is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants condu... | 4 | thin |
| NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the United States scientific and regulatory agency within the Department of Commerce charged with monitoring oceani... | 12 | thin |
| The Index | theindex.fyi is a maintained meta-index of indie web and small web index sites — a curated catalog of curated catalogs. It tracks ~40 indexes spanning six categories (curated di... | 1 | thin |
| Boycott Israeli Consumer Goods Dataset | The Boycott Israeli Consumer Goods Dataset, maintained by TechForPalestine, is a version-controlled, golden-source repository collating consumer boycott and alternative product ... | 1 | thin |
| USPTO | 6 | thin | |
| Department of Education | The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is a federal agency that manages and coordinates federal assistance to education and establishes policy for it. ED's mission is to promote ... | 4 | thin |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal agency responsible for overseeing programs that address the country's housing needs and promote sustain... | 4 | minimal |
| Department of Justice | The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is the federal executive department responsible for enforcing the law and defending the interests of the United States. DOJ exposes a portfo... | 5 | minimal |
| Department of Labor | The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the federal department that fosters, promotes, and develops the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees, improves working condit... | 5 | minimal |
| Congressional Budget Office | The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is the U.S. legislative branch agency that provides nonpartisan analyses of budgetary and economic issues to Congress. CBO publishes the Bu... | 3 | minimal |
| US Air Force | The United States Air Force is responsible for providing air and space power to protect the United States and its interests. As part of the Department of the Air Force, the USAF... | 2 | minimal |
| Bureau of Transportation Statistics | The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT) is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight a... | 3 | minimal |
| Cancer.gov | Cancer.gov is the web presence of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. federal government's principal agency for cancer research and training. NCI and its partner progr... | 6 | minimal |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the United States' national public health agency, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC operates a bro... | 7 | minimal |
| Open Library | Open Library offers a suite of APIs to help developers get up and running with its data. This includes RESTful APIs that make Open Library data available in JSON, YAML, and RDF/... | 11 | minimal |
| Health Resources and Services Administration | The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or med... | 2 | minimal |
| Federal Trade Commission | The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a U.S. federal agency that enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws affecting virtually every area of commerce. The FTC publishes de... | 4 | minimal |
| American Battle Monuments Commission | The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), established by Congress in 1923, commemorates the service, achievements, and sacrifice of U.S. Armed Forces. ABMC administers an... | 1 | minimal |
| Central Intelligence Agency | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States' civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing nat... | 6 | minimal |
| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing federal immigration a... | 3 | minimal |
| Administration for Community Living (ACL) | The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. ACL works to maximize the independence, well-being, and healt... | 1 | minimal |
| Administration for Native Americans (ANA) | The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is an agency within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ANA promotes ... | 1 | minimal |
| Administrative Conference of the United States | The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is an independent federal agency within the executive branch whose statutory mission is to identify ways to improve the... | 2 | minimal |
| Environmental Protection Agency | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides multiple public data APIs covering environmental records, air quality monitoring, UV forecasts, and internal data holding... | 4 | minimal |
| Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network cataloging the API surfaces that move data across the modern electricity, gas, and water value chain. It in... | 9 | minimal |
| General Services Administration | The General Services Administration (GSA) provides workplaces by constructing, managing, and preserving government buildings and by leasing and managing commercial real estate. ... | 31 | minimal |
| Overture Maps Foundation | The Overture Maps Foundation is a Linux Foundation project created in partnership with Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom to build reliable, open map data as an alternative to pro... | 1 | minimal |
| Overture Maps Foundation | Overture Maps Foundation is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that produces free, open, and interoperable map data. Overture publishes cloud-native GeoParquet datasets, o... | 11 | minimal |
| PrisonDB | PrisonDB is a project that aims to provide information and tools to help folks gain access to data about prisons, jails, immigrant detention centers and other correctional insti... | 1 | minimal |
| Data.gov | Data.gov is the United States federal government's open data catalog, operated by the General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Transformation Services. It indexes over 3... | 4 | minimal |
| British Columbia Data Catalogue | The British Columbia Data Catalogue is the official open data portal for the Government of British Columbia, Canada. Built on the CKAN open data platform, it provides programmat... | 1 | minimal |
| International Development Finance Corporation | The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in dev... | 1 | minimal |
| Election Assistance Commission | The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The EAC is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with developi... | 1 | minimal |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is the nation's largest public funder of the humanities, which include history, philosophy, literature, language, ethics, law, ar... | 1 | minimal |
| Public Sector | Industry-vertical index for the public-sector / government API landscape across U.S. federal, state, and local levels. Catalogs the federal API gateway api.data.gov (operated by... | 21 | minimal |
APIs in this industry (417)
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2020 Police Brutality API
SEC EDGAR XBRL API
AGID Program Data Portal
ANA Projects Report Dataset
Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) Database
Federal Administrative Adjudication Database
PACER Authentication API
PACER Case Locator (PCL) API
USDA NASS Crop CASMA API
USDA NASS CroplandCROS API
USDA NASS QuickStats API
USDA NASS VegScape API
AQICN JSON Air Quality API
AQICN Real-Time Air Quality API
TTB COLA Registry
TTB Open Data API
AmeriCorps Open Data SODA API
ABMC We Remember Burial Search
ARC Data Report Tool
NASA Open APIs
BBVA Locations API
BMW Open Data Platform
Boycott Israeli Consumer Goods Dataset
BC Data Catalogue CKAN API
Bureau of Consular Affairs Data Catalog (CKAN API)
Indian Affairs GIS Open Data
BJS NCVS API
BJS NIBRS National Estimates API
BLS Public Data API
BTS Freight Analysis Framework (FAF)
BTS Open Data SODA API
TranStats - Airline On-Time Performance Data
CMS AB2D API
CMS Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA)
CMS Beneficiary FHIR Data Server (BFD)
CMS Blue Button 2.0 API
CMS Data at the Point of Care API (DPC)
CMS Marketplace API
CMS Medicare Coverage Database API
CMS Open Data API (data.cms.gov)
CMS Provider Data Catalog API
CMS Quality Payment Program API
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
NCI Clinical Trials Search API
NCI Content Syndication Services
NCI EVS Terminology API
NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) API
NCI MoDaC API
NCI SEER API
CenterPoint Energy Green Button Connect My Data
CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API
CDC NNDSS / MMWR Socrata Data
CDC Open Technology API Index
CDC PLACES / 500 Cities API
CDC Public Health Media Library (Content Syndication)
CDC Socrata Open Data API (data.cdc.gov)
CDC WONDER API
CMS Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA)
CMS Blue Button 2.0 API
CMS Data at the Point of Care (DPC) API
CMS Provider Data Catalog API (Care Compare)
CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) Measures API
CMS Socrata Open Data API (data.cms.gov)
Healthcare.gov Marketplace API
Medicare Coverage Database (MCD) API
NPPES NPI Registry API
CIA Careers Portal
CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)
CIA Museum Digital Collection
CIA Public Website
CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)
Studies in Intelligence Journal
Chess.com Published Data API
CTA Bus Tracker API
CTA Customer Alerts API
CTA GTFS Schedule Feed
CTA Train Tracker API
PaymentAccuracy.gov (Payment Integrity)
USAspending.gov API (Treasury)
CHOP FHIR R4 API
D3b Data Sharing Platforms
DBHi Biomedical and Health Informatics
Link2CHOP Referring Physician Portal
MyCHOP Patient Portal
AACT Database
ClinicalTrials.gov Bulk Downloads
ClinicalTrials.gov Classic API
ClinicalTrials.gov Data API v2
Data Marketplaces
CFTC Bank Participation and Large Trader Reports
CFTC Commitments of Traders SODA API
CFTC Swap Data Repositories
CBO Budget and Economic Data
CBO Cost Estimates
CBO Publications RSS Feeds
Consumer Complaint Database API
HMDA Data Browser API
HMDA Institutions API
CPSC Recalls API
SaferProducts.gov OData API
Open Beauty Facts
Open Food Facts
Country.io Data API
DMI Open Data API
Data Commons BigQuery
Data Commons Google Sheets
Data Commons MCP Server
Data Commons Python Client
Data Commons REST API V2
Data Commons Web Components
Data.gov CKAN Action API
Data.gov Harvester (datagov-harvester)
Inventory.data.gov CKAN API
Project Open Data (data.json) Catalog API
College Scorecard API
Department of Education Open Data Platform API
EDFacts Data
IPEDS Data
Buildings Performance Database API
Department of Energy Open Data Catalog
EIA Open Data API V2
NREL/NLR Developer Network APIs
OSTI DOE PAGES API
OSTI ELINK API
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Feed
DHS Open Data Catalog
National Terrorism Advisory System Feed
OpenFEMA API
USCIS Case Status API
USCIS FOIA Request and Status API
FHA Mortgage Limits
HUD Open Data Catalog
HUD USER FMR/IL API
HUD eGIS ArcGIS REST Services
BJS NIBRS National Estimates API
BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) API
DOJ News API
DOJ Open Data Catalog
FOIA.gov Annual Report API
BLS Public Data API V2
DOL API Sampler
DOL Enforcement Data
DOL Open Data API V4
DOL Open Data Catalog
State Department Open Data on data.gov
DOI Open Data Catalog
Treasury Fiscal Data API
DiscGolfAPI REST API
Dog API
DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar Dataset
EU Open Data Portal SPARQL API
EU Open Data Portal Search API
Ecologi Reporting API
Election Assistance Commission
EIA Open Data API
Distributed Energy Resource Management APIs
EIA Open Data API
EV Charging Interoperability Protocols
Green Button (CMD / DMD / ESPI / CDS)
ISO and RTO Wholesale Market APIs
NREL Developer Network APIs
OpenADR Demand Response
Utility Data Integration APIs
Weather APIs for Grid and Solar
EPA Air Quality System API
EPA ECHO Compliance and Enforcement API
EPA Envirofacts Data Service API
EPA UV Index API
EXIM Open Data API
Farm Service Agency
FCC Open Data API
College Scorecard API
Consumer Sentinel Network
FTC Developer Portal
HSR Premerger Notification
National Do Not Call Registry
USDA FAS Open Data API
Acquisition Gateway Listings API
Analytics.usa.gov API
Contract-Awarded Labor Category (CALC) API
Data.gov CKAN API
GSA Fleet Vehicles / Vehicle Leasing
IT Collect Public API
Per Diem API
Regulations.gov API
SAM.gov Acquisition Subaward Reporting Public API
SAM.gov Assistance Listings Public API
SAM.gov Assistance Subaward Reporting Public API
SAM.gov Contract Awards API
SAM.gov Entity Management API
SAM.gov Entity/Exclusions Extracts Download API
SAM.gov Exclusions API
SAM.gov Federal Hierarchy FOUO API
SAM.gov Federal Hierarchy Public API
SAM.gov Get Opportunities Public API
SAM.gov Opportunity Management API
SAM.gov Product Service Codes (PSC) API
SAM.gov Public Location Services API
SAM.gov Subaward Reporting Bulk Upload API
Search.gov Clicks API
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Matched provider/API tags include Open Data, Open Government Data, Public Data.