Edmonton Open Data Search: Datasets by Keyword and Category

edmontonopendata/search-datasets

Searches the City of Edmonton open data portal (data.edmonton.ca) for datasets matching your search terms and returns the total match count plus, for each dataset on the requested page, its id, name, description, category, attribution, columns, last data update and page views. Only data.edmonton.ca datasets, metadata only. Data of the City of Edmonton, served by Eden Engine; not an official City of Edmonton product.

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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

City of Edmonton Open Data Portal

Source: City of Edmonton Open Data Portal (data.edmonton.ca); the dataset attribution field reads 'City of Edmonton' and the portal licence is titled Open Government Licence - Edmonton. Served by Eden Engine; not an official City of Edmonton 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.

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agent

// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "edmontonopendata/search-datasets" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "edmontonopendata/search-datasets" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "edmontonopendata/search-datasets", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "edmontonopendata/search-datasets", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 24, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "q": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Search terms, for example 'traffic', 'building permits' or 'transit'."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 3,
      "maximum": 5,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Datasets to return, 1 to 5. Defaults to 3."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Datasets to skip, for reading further pages."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "resultSetSize",
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "resource"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "link": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Portal page for the dataset."
          },
          "owner": {
            "type": [
              "object",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Portal user that owns the dataset: id and display name.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "creator": {
            "type": [
              "object",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Portal user that created the dataset: id and display name.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "metadata": {
            "type": [
              "object",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Domain and licence label, for example {domain, license}.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "resource": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "id",
              "name"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Dataset id (four-by-four); pass it to the dataset-metadata and dataset-rows tools."
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Dataset name."
              },
              "type": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Asset type, for example dataset."
              },
              "updatedAt": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Last update of metadata or data, ISO 8601."
              },
              "attribution": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Attribution the publisher declared."
              },
              "description": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Description, as the publisher wrote it."
              },
              "columns_name": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "description": "Column names."
              },
              "data_updated_at": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Last update of the rows, ISO 8601."
              },
              "columns_datatype": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "description": "Column data types."
              },
              "columns_field_name": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "description": "Column field names as used in a SoQL where."
              }
            },
            "description": "Dataset resource block.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "permalink": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Portal page for the dataset."
          },
          "classification": {
            "type": [
              "object",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Category, tags and domain classification.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "One entry per dataset on the page; empty when nothing matches."
    },
    "resultSetSize": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Total number of datasets matching the search."
    }
  },
  "description": "The Socrata catalog envelope: the number of matching datasets and the requested page of dataset records.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}