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How to connect ABS Data API (SDMX) Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics exposes statistical dataflows over an SDMX-REST Data API. The live host in our catalog is the practical starting point for agents and scripts that need ABS series without scraping HTML.

For interactive microdata tables, ABS also runs TableBuilder (account registration). This guide covers the public Data API record.

Steps

  1. Find the base URL. Use https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest/dataflow — docs at https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide.
  2. Auth. Catalogued as Open read — none for public read.
  3. Try an example request. 
    curl -s 'https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest/dataflow'
  4. Licence. Check publisher terms — not stated on this record. Read the publisher terms before production use.
Connect recipe
base
https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest/dataflow
docs
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/application-programming-interfaces-apis/data-api-user-guide
protocol
SDMX
auth
Open read — none for public read
licence
Licence unclear
try
curl -s 'https://data.api.abs.gov.au/rest/dataflow'
checked
2026-08-23 · 200 OK · 304 ms

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