Open Data CKAN Inventory

Store Positioning

Store title: Open Data CKAN Inventory

Short description: Inventory public CKAN-style open data portals by collecting packages, resources, formats, licenses, organizations, tags, modified dates, and resource availability.

SEO title: Open Data CKAN Inventory — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Inventory public CKAN-style open data portals by collecting packages, resources, formats, licenses, organizations, tags, modified dates, and resource availability. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: DEVELOPER_TOOLS

Keywords: open, data, ckan, inventory, data qa, public data, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
• Primary event: record-fetched at $0.00908 base
• Default max charge: $15.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Open Data Ckan Inventory: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Open Data Ckan Inventory: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Open Data Ckan Inventory: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Open Data Ckan Inventory: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Inventory permit datasets
• Export air quality resource metadata
• Build a housing data catalog
• List transportation packages without resources
• Inventory public water quality resources

Inputs

• portalUrls
• query
• organizations
• groups
• resourceFormats
• maxPackages
• includeResources
• includeSchemaHints
• sampleCsvHeaders
• checkResourceAvailability
• requestDelayMs
• timeoutMs

The exact default queries the public data.gov.uk CKAN API for two planning-permission packages, verified at 2026-07-12T06:15:00Z.

Outputs

• portalUrl
• packageId
• packageName
• packageTitle
• organization
• groups
• license
• tags
• packageModified
• resourceId
• resourceName
• resourceFormat
• resourceUrl
• resourceSizeBytes
• resourceLastModified
• availabilityStatus
• schemaFields
• warning

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.