# API

The PDH Data Catalogue is built on [CKAN](https://ckan.org/), the world's leading open source data management system. CKAN’s **Action API** is a powerful, RPC-style API that exposes all of CKAN’s core features to API clients.

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Follow the link below to interact with the PDH Data Catalogue API
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This API provides live access to the Pacific Data Hub Data Catalogue. Further documentation on the API is available from <https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html>.

Confirm the version of the API available from the catalogue by requesting <https://pacificdata.org/data/api/3/action/status_show>.