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avoindata.fi — Finland's data catalogue

Name: avoindata.fi — Finland's data catalogue
License: CC-BY-4.0

avoindata.fi is Finland's national data portal operated by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV). The CKAN v3 API provides metadata for all registered open datasets from Finnish state agencies, regions, municipalities and universities — a dynamic discovery engine for new FI data sources. Same CKAN pattern as the Swedish dataportal-se and Danish datavejviser. CC-BY-4.0, no auth. Issue #1894.

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Data volume

Daily

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /connectors/avoindata-fi/search

{
  "data": "..."
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

avoindata_fi.dataset

avoindata_fi.organisations

avoindata_fi.search

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avoindata-fi": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/avoindata-fi",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Analysis apps that use this source

Ready-made tools built on avoindata.fi — Finland's data catalogue data. Use them directly in the browser, or wire the same data into your own analysis via the API below.

Finnish data catalogue

Search Finland's national open-data catalogue (avoindata.fi) — datasets from Finnish authorities, municipalities and universities with CSV/JSON/WFS resources.

API endpoints

GET

/search

Søk i datasett-katalogen

q required: Søkestreng q=budget
rows optional: Antall treff per side (1–100) rows=20
start optional: Offset for paginering (0–10000) start=0

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/search?q=budget
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/search?q=budget"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/dataset/{id}

Full metadata for datasett

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/dataset/{id}
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/dataset/{id}"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/organisations

List dataeiende organisasjoner

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/organisations
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/avoindata-fi/organisations"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

avoindata.fi — Finland's data catalogue is openly available — create an account to get started.

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