---
title: "Vote for a dataset by its portal URL. Nothing is stored when the URL is not in the catalogue."
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/requests"
tags: ["backlog"]
---

# Vote for a dataset by its portal URL. Nothing is stored when the URL is not in the catalogue.

`POST /api/v1/requests`

## Request

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

status is voted (with the new count), served (with its page here), closed (with the reason it cannot take a vote) or not_found (with who to contact).

## Request body

- object
  - `url` string, uri, required

## Response `200`

What the URL names and what happened

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Not a URL
- `429`: Over the fair-use limit for one address. Wait Retry-After seconds.
- `503`: The catalogue index is not loaded yet, or votes are not being counted at the moment

---

[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)