# Atlas of Living Australia API

**Publisher:** ALA / CSIRO / NCRIS (Research)  
**Jurisdiction:** AU  
**Status:** Live · checked 2026-08-23  
**Agent-ready:** no  
**Canonical:** https://ausdatacatalog.com/apis/ala-api

## Connect recipe

| key | value |
| --- | --- |
| base | https://api.ala.org.au/ |
| docs | https://docs.ala.org.au/ |
| protocol | REST |
| auth | Open read — none for most reads; JWT for write/sensitive |
| licence | unknown · commercial use unclear |
| try | curl -s 'https://api.ala.org.au/' |
| checked | 2026-08-23 · HTTP 200 |

## Curator notes

National biodiversity. Occurrences, species, spatial, lists, images, namematching, etc. Most read endpoints open; write/sensitive need JWT.