opendatasoft

{
  "service_type": "platform",
  "base_url": "https://opendatasoft.com",
  "auth_method": "api_key",
  "auth_config": {
    "notes": "Each Opendatasoft-powered data portal (e.g., *.opendatasoft.com) issues its own API keys. Authentication for the Explore API v2.1 is via an 'apikey' query parameter or an 'Authorization: Apikey <key>' header. Management of keys is done per-domain through the portal admin. Public datasets often allow anonymous, unauthenticated read access."
  },
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "name": "Explore API v2.1 - Dataset records",
      "path": "/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Query and retrieve records from a given dataset with filtering, sorting, aggregation (group_by), select, where, order_by, limit, offset."
    },
    {
      "name": "Explore API v2.1 - Dataset metadata",
      "path": "/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Retrieve metadata for a dataset (fields, schema, description, etc.)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Explore API v2.1 - Dataset exports",
      "path": "/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/exports/{format}",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Export dataset in csv, json, xlsx, parquet, etc."
    },
    {
      "name": "Explore API v2.1 - Catalog search",
      "path": "/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Search/browse datasets within the portal catalog."
    },
    {
      "name": "Management API",
      "path": "/api/management/v{version}/...",
      "method": "CRUD",
      "description": "Programmatic administration of domains, datasets, users, permissions, and metadata. Requires appropriate API key with administrative scope."
    },
    {
      "name": "OData (legacy / compatibility)",
      "path": "/api/v2/catalog/datasets/{dataset_id}/records",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Legacy ODS API v2 endpoints; older integrations may still use these."
    }
  ],
  "pricing_model": {
    "type": "subscription",
    "details": {
      "summary": "Opendatasoft offers a Data Hub / Data Portal SaaS platform (subscription-based) plus a free tier for community/public open data portals. Exact tiers and pricing are quote-based; the company does not publish a full public price list. Features scale with data volume, API call volumes, number of users, and support level.",
      "notes": [
        "Free community/limited offering for open data portals",
        "Enterprise subscription for internal data sharing, governance, and large-scale APIs",
        "Pricing is typically per-domain / per-organization with custom quotes",
        "No usage-based public pay-as-you-go pricing published"
      ]
    }
  },
  "rate_limits": {
    "summary": "Rate limits are not publicly documented as fixed global numbers. Limits are configured per portal/domain and per API key by portal administrators. Defaults vary by plan; enterprise plans can raise them. Practical constraints depend on the specific Opendatasoft-powered domain you query, not on opendatasoft.com itself.",
    "notes": [
      "Rate limiting applied per API key / per portal",
      "Some public portals apply quota by IP for anonymous calls",
      "Enterprise plans allow custom/negotiated throughput"
    ]
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "Host and publish open data / internal data portals (Data Hub)",
    "Automatic REST API generation for each dataset (Explore API v2.1)",
    "Record-level queries with filtering, full-text search, faceting, aggregation",
    "Dataset exports (CSV, JSON, XLSX, Parquet, GeoJSON)",
    "Dataset metadata and catalog search APIs",
    "Geospatial data support (GeoJSON, map visualizations)",
    "Data visualization widgets and dashboards",
    "Data processing / enrichment pipelines (prepare, transform, join)",
    "Data governance, sharing permissions, and access control",
    "Management API for programmatic portal administration",
    "Single Sign-On and user/role management",
    "Usage analytics and monitoring of data consumption",
    "Integrations with BI tools, GIS tools, and web apps via the generated APIs"
  ],
  "raw_analysis": "Opendatasoft is a French-origin data platform company (founded 2011) that provides a SaaS 'Data Hub' product enabling organizations to publish, share, and reuse data through open data portals and internal data marketplaces. While opendatasoft.com itself is the corporate site, the product's distinguishing feature is that every dataset within an Opendatasoft-powered portal is automatically exposed via a well-documented REST API, currently the 'Explore API v2.1'. This is the API that most integrators actually call — and its base URL is the specific customer portal domain (e.g., data.cityname.fr or myorg.opendatasoft.com), not opendatasoft.com.\n\nKey characteristics:\n- Audience: government/public sector entities (#1 use case), smart cities, regions, transport author

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{
  "overall": 62,
  "dimensions": {
    "token_efficiency": 7.5,
    "first_try_success": 5.5,
    "response_parseability": 8.5,
    "error_clarity": 6.0,
    "doc_quality": 7.0,
    "auth_simplicity": 5.0,
    "latency": 4.0,
    "consistency": 7.0
  },
  "pricing_normalized": {
    "model": "quote_based_subscription",
    "free_tier": true,
    "public_pricing": false,
    "note": "Community/open data tier exists; enterprise tiers are custom-quoted. No public per-call or tiered price list, making cost estimation difficult for agents recommending to users."
  },
  "issues": [
    "No public pricing — quote-based enterprise model makes cost transparency poor for agent recommendations.",
    "No llms.txt (404) — agents cannot efficiently discover canonical docs/endpoints.",
    "Homepage latency ~3s — slow first impression, hurts perceived reliability.",
    "Auth/onboarding for enterprise requires sales engagement, not self-serve.",
    "robots.txt restrictively disallows resources/blog paths, though API/catalog access isn't the constraint."
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Publish an llms.txt with links to Explore API v2.1 docs, auth methods, and dataset catalog for agent consumption.",
    "Improve homepage TTFB/latency (<1s) since it's likely scored first by agents.",
    "Add a public pricing page or at least a searchable tier matrix so agents can quote ranges.",
    "Document API rate limits, auth token acquisition, and error codes in a machine-readable reference.",
    "Offer self-serve API keys/magic-link onboarding for the free community tier."
  ]
}