HDX offers two kinds of APIs to make the humanitarian data easy to access programatically and use for analysis.
  • HDX CKAN API is a general-purpose API for accessing all datasets on HDX’s CKAN platform. HDX CKAN API covers all datasets hosted on the HDX platform. Read the documentation.
  • HDX HAPI is a newer API, specifically designed for providing direct access to a curated set of standardised indicators. HDX HAPI focuses on the most important crisis data included in the HDX Data Grids. Read the documentation.