Developers

This section documents Data.Gov.sa APIs, for developers who want to write code that interacts with Data.gov.sa and their data.

For example, using the Data.Gov.sa API your app can:

Query example (first 5 results)

https://data.gov.sa/Data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d5c349f5-f588-43aa-b81b-8fe5d9a2e113&limit=5

Query example (results containing jones)

https://data.gov.sa/Data/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d5c349f5-f588-43aa-b81b-8fe5d9a2e113&q=jones

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://data.gov.sa/Data/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "d5c349f5-f588-43aa-b81b-8fe5d9a2e113" WHERE title LIKE jones

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

var data = {

resource_id: "d5c349f5-f588-43aa-b81b-8fe5d9a2e113", // the resource id

limit: 5, // get 5 results

q: "jones" // query for "jones"

};

$.ajax({

url: "https://data.gov.sa/api/3/action/datastore_search",

data: data,

dataType: "jsonp",/

success: function(data) {

alert("Total results found: " + data.result.total)

}

});

import urllib

url = "https://data.gov.sa/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d5c349f5-f588-43aa-b81b-8fe5d9a2e113&limit=5&q=title:jones"

fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)

print fileobj.read()