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GET /v1/meta

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/eudata-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/eudata-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/eudata-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/eudata-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "The official open-data portal of the European Union — 1.8 million+ datasets harvested from the EU institutions and the national portals of the 27 member states (e.g. data.gov.uk, data.gouv.fr, govdata.de). /v1/search?q=renewable energy (optional filters format=CSV and country=fr, a 2-letter code) = search datasets returning each dataset's id, title, description, publisher, source portal, country, available formats, resource count, last-modified date and license; /v1/dataset?id=<dataset id> = a dataset's full metadata (title, description, publisher and homepage, source portal & country, languages, categories, keywords, license, dates) together with every downloadable distribution — its title, format and direct URL; /v1/facets?q=energy = discovery facets for a query (the most common file formats and the countries publishing matching datasets). Dataset ids come from search results. Titles and descriptions are returned in English where available. Data from data.europa.eu (mostly CC-BY / public-domain; check each dataset's license). For US bank data see the FDIC API; for economic indicators the World Bank or DBnomics APIs.",
        "source": "EU Open Data Portal — data.europa.eu CKAN API",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/dataset",
            "/v1/facets",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:19.835Z",
        "request_id": "5ec5fbfa-5381-4961-8c68-473cea9a1fc2"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}