data.gov.au alternative
data.gov.au is the federal open data catalogue. Every agency publishes datasets there, usually as CSV or XLSX. It is free, exhaustive, and CKAN-based.
What data.gov.au does well
- Broadest Australian open data catalogue.
- Search across federal and state datasets.
- Most files are CC-BY licensed.
Where ausdata.io fits better
- Most datasets on data.gov.au are static files. We turn the high-traffic ones into JSON APIs.
- We normalise schemas across releases, so your code does not break when an agency reshuffles columns.
- Composed endpoints join across sources, which the raw catalogue cannot do.
How to choose
- Pick data.gov.au if
- You need a one-off CSV download for a research paper.
- Pick ausdata.io if
- You need a JSON API that survives the next agency release.
- Pricing
- data.gov.au: free downloads. ausdata.io: free up to 500 calls, then $39 for hosted JSON.
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