
Gives Claude access to over 3,000 public OpenDataSoft portals through two simple tools: search datasets across all instances and query records from specific datasets. This is your gateway to civic open data from cities, governments, and organizations worldwide, all running on the OpenDataSoft platform. You can use it standalone or through the full Pipeworx gateway, which adds an ask_pipeworx tool that handles natural language queries without manual tool selection. Runs as a remote server over streamable HTTP, so there's nothing to install locally. Reach for this when you need to explore or pull data from public portals without hunting down individual API endpoints for each municipality or agency.
Opendatasoft portal MCP — generic client for the ~3000 public OpenDataSoft portals (e.g. public.opendatasoft.com, data.paris.fr, data.economie.gouv.fr, etc.). Keyless for public data.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.
datasets(instance?, q?, rows?, start?, sort?, facet?) — search datasets on an instancedataset(dataset_id, instance?) — single dataset metadatarecords(dataset_id, q?, where?, select?, group_by?, order_by?, limit?, offset?, instance?) — records in a dataset (SQL-style)facets(dataset_id, facet, instance?) — distinct values in a facetinstance_info(instance?) — instance-wide metadatainstance defaults to public.opendatasoft.com (a public mash-up portal). Pass a hostname to target a specific portal.
https://<instance>/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/... and /datasets/<id>/records
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"opendatasoft": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opendatasoft/mcp"
}
}
}
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opendatasoft/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1476+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Opendatasoft data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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