Irish Open Data Search (data.gov.ie Datasets)
datagovieckan/search-datasets
Searches the Irish government's open data portal (data.gov.ie) for datasets matching your search terms and returns the total match count plus, for each dataset on the requested page, its title, description, publisher, declared licence, resources and download links. Only datasets under licences that permit commercial use (CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0, ODbL) are returned; catalogue records only, not the data files. Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0, served by Eden Engine; not an official data.gov.ie product.
Price
$0.0026 per call
You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $0.50.
Data source
Irish Open Data Portal (data.gov.ie)
Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (or the publisher's own attribution statement if it gives one). Dataset records from data.gov.ie, the Irish open data portal. Served by Eden Engine; not an official data.gov.ie product.
Use it
Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.
Connect once and your AI can find and run this tool, and any other it needs.
// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })
// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "datagovieckan/search-datasets" })
// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "datagovieckan/search-datasets" })
// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "datagovieckan/search-datasets", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "datagovieckan/search-datasets", input: { /* ... */ } })
// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to doNot connected yet? Point your MCP client at https://mcp.eden-engine.com/mcp, then copy a config for your client.
Pricing
Every charge this tool can incur.
| Charge | Price |
|---|---|
Per call | $0.0026 |
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2026
Input and output schemas
Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"q"
],
"properties": {
"q": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 200,
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Search terms, for example 'planning applications', 'air quality' or 'companies registration office'."
},
"rows": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 5,
"maximum": 10,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "How many dataset records to return, 1 to 10. Defaults to 5. The count field still reports the total number of matches."
},
"start": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Number of matches to skip, for reading further pages. Leave out to start at the first match."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"count",
"results"
],
"properties": {
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Sort the portal applied."
},
"count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Total number of datasets matching the search."
},
"facets": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"results": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id",
"name",
"title",
"license_id"
],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Dataset id (UUID)."
},
"url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Publisher's page about the dataset."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "URL slug of the dataset on data.gov.ie."
},
"tags": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Tags, each with name and display_name."
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Dataset title."
},
"frequency": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Update frequency the publisher declared."
},
"resources": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Files and endpoints of the dataset, each with url, format, name and modification times."
},
"license_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Licence id the publisher declared; only CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0, cc-zero and ODbL-1.0 datasets are returned."
},
"license_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Licence text link, when given."
},
"organization": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Publishing body: id, name, title and description.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"license_title": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Licence name."
},
"num_resources": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of resources."
},
"metadata_created": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Record creation time, UTC, ISO 8601 without offset."
},
"notes_translated": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Description by language code.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"title_translated": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Title by language code, for example en and ga.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"metadata_modified": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Record last-modified time, UTC."
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "One entry per dataset; empty when nothing matches or the page is past the last match."
},
"search_facets": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true
}
},
"description": "The CKAN result unwrapped from its success envelope: `count` is the total number of matches, `results` the requested page of dataset records.",
"additionalProperties": false
}