Guides

How to connect Australian open-data APIs

Short recipes for the sources people actually integrate: base URL, auth, a curl that works, and a link back to the curated record. Not ads — just the fields we already publish on each API page.

1. AU Agent-ready

   How to connect Digital Earth Australia STAC API

   STAC search over DEA satellite collections — open read, agent-ready.

   dea-stac
2. AU

   How to connect ABS Data API (SDMX)

   ABS statistical dataflows over SDMX-REST — public read, no key.

   abs-sdmx-live
3. NSW

   How to connect Transport for NSW Open Data

   CKAN package search and keyed realtime feeds from TfNSW.

   transport-nsw-open-data
4. AU

   How to connect BOM JSON weather observations

   Bureau of Meteorology state observation JSON feeds (fwo).

   bom-json-observations-fwo
5. WA

   How to connect WA data catalogue API

   CKAN machine endpoint for catalogue.data.wa.gov.au.

   data-wa-gov-au-ckan
6. NSW

   How to connect the NSW Air Quality Data API

   Station list, pollutant parameters and hourly observations — open JSON, no key.

   nsw-air-quality-data-api
7. AU Agent-ready

   How to connect the AusTender OCDS API

   Federal contract notices in the Open Contracting Data Standard — open, no key.

   austender-ocds-api
8. QLD Agent-ready

   How to connect the QLDTraffic GeoJSON API

   Live Queensland road events as GeoJSON — public shared key, 100 req/min.

   qldtraffic-geojson-api
9. WA

   How to connect WA FuelWatch

   Daily fixed fuel prices for every WA servo as RSS — open, no key.

   wa-fuelwatch-rss
10. NSW Agent-ready

    How to connect NSW BioNet species sightings (OData)

    ~17M NSW wildlife sightings over OData v4 — open, CC BY 4.0.

    nsw-bionet-species-sightings-odata
11. AU

    How to connect the data.gov.au API (CKAN)

    Search 141,000+ federal and harvested datasets with CKAN package_search. Open read, no key.

    data-gov-au-ckan
12. VIC

    How to connect the DataVic open data API (CKAN)

    Victoria's 5,600 datasets via CKAN at discover.data.vic.gov.au, with row-level datastore_search on many CSVs.

    datavic-ckan-discover-data-vic-gov-au
13. QLD

    How to connect the Queensland open data API (CKAN)

    data.qld.gov.au CKAN package_search and datastore_search. Open read, no key.

    queensland-open-data-ckan
14. AU

    How to connect the AODN / IMOS ocean data catalogue

    Search Australia's marine and ocean datasets through the AODN GeoNetwork JSON and CSW endpoints. Open, no key.

    aodn-imos-geonetwork

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