Public Finance & Government
Cross-portal federated catalog search
Federated Discovery search spanning all ten whitelisted portals via api.us.socrata.com/api/catalog/v1. Useful when you want to locate a dataset without knowing which agency publishes it. Response pools results across portals and annotates each row with its originating domain.
get/api/v1/socrata/federated-search
Query parameters
qstring nullable
Free-text search across catalog rows.
Free-text search across catalog rows.
limitinteger
Page size (1-1000).
Page size (1-1000).
offsetinteger
Page offset for pagination.
Page offset for pagination.
onlystring nullable
Type filter (dataset, chart, map, filter, story).
Type filter (dataset, chart, map, filter, story).
Response
Pooled catalog rows from all supported portals.
Example response
{
"meta": {
"endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
"data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
"response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
"provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
"source": "sugra_crypto",
"attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
"fallback_chain": [
"sugra_crypto",
"sugra_finance"
]
}
}