---
title: "Search the datasets served here by title, description, publisher, keyword or field name"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/datasets"
tags: ["catalogue"]
---

# Search the datasets served here by title, description, publisher, keyword or field name

`GET /api/v1/datasets`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://publicdata.au`
- URL: `https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets`
- Auth: none declared

The search behind the search_datasets tool. Words in q are matched to their stem, and up to 50 datasets come back, best match first. Without q, every dataset served here comes back.

## Query parameters

- `q` string

## Response `200`

Matching datasets

- object
  - `results` object[]

## Other responses

- `429`: Over the fair-use limit for one address. Wait Retry-After seconds.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/publicdata/apis/publicdata-au.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/publicdata/apis/publicdata-au/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/publicdata/apis/publicdata-au/revisions/84f7c81b41e5?raw)