Open Canada Dataset Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Search the Government of Canada open data catalogue on open.canada.ca and pull dataset records or the files attached to them. Filter by topic or department, pick dataset or file-resource rows, and export to JSON, CSV, or Excel. Uses the public CKAN Data with paging, retries, and duplicate skipping.
search returns one row per dataset. resources returns one row per file attached to those datasets.
Text passed to the CKAN package_search q parameter. Example: health.
Optional CKAN organization name used as an fq filter, such as phac-aspc. Leave empty to search every organization.
In search mode, attach the dataset file list on each row. Ignored in resources mode, which already emits one row per file.
Maximum dataset or resource rows to save. Values above 1000 are clamped to 1000.
Stop fetching when this many seconds have passed. Already saved rows stay in the dataset.
Seconds to wait for each CKAN HTTP response before retrying.
