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This introductory page contains mainly basic information about the semantic formats of data and metadata responses. This is particularly relevant for obtaining additional information about SDMX and JSON-stat.
Getting started, the next page, provides a brief overview about the different endpoints supported in the API. It is strongly recommended to read this page, before proceeding to the next pages.
Data discovery provides insights about how to get catalogues and lists of metadata and data.
Metadata query and Data query focus on the basic API calls to request metadata and datasets.
Metadata filtering and Data filtering provide information about more advanced features to request metadata and datasets.
A Frequently asked questions section.
Which organizations expose this API?
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Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Directorates General of the European Commission:
The Directorate General for Competition, further referred to as DG COMPThe Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and inclusion, further referred to as DG EMPL
The Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, further referred to as DG GROW
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The WSDL for SOAP endpoints and WADL for REST endpoints are explained in Getting started.
Note | This online help describes REST operations, as those are primarily recommended for use. |
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Eurostat | DG COMP | https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/compeurostat/redisstatapi/apicomext/dissemination (Comext and Prodcom datasets) | |
DG EMPL | https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/empl/redisstat/api/dissemination | ||
DG GROW | https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/grow/redisstat/api/dissemination |
API for Comext datasets
Important note: dedicated endpoints of the new API allow to download Comext and Prodcom datasets.
For these datasets, the <api_base_uri> is: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination
In the URL above, "comext/" is added to differenciate this base URL from the main one: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination
Further note concerning Comext datasets: full datasets cannot be downloaded because of their size. They have to be filtered.
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Eurostat | ESTAT | DG COMP | COMP |
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DG GROW | GROW |
Supported semantic formats
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