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data.gouv.fr MCP Server

Official data.gouv.fr MCP server for searching French national open datasets, exploring organizations and data services, inspecting resources, querying tabular data, and retrieving dataset metrics through Claude.

by data.gouv.fr·added 2026-06-06·
Claude CodeClaude Desktop
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Open the source and read safety notes before installing.

Safety notes

  • The hosted endpoint is documented as publicly available without access restrictions, so treat requests and returned public-data context as externally visible.
  • Tools are read-only but can retrieve dataset metadata, resource URLs, rows from tabular resources, service OpenAPI specs, metrics, and organization details that may influence decisions.
  • Public open data can be stale, incomplete, licensed with reuse conditions, or unsuitable for operational decisions without checking the dataset publisher and update cadence.
  • Tabular queries can return rows from large resources; use small page sizes and pagination instead of asking an agent to pull entire datasets through chat.
  • If self-hosting, review MCP_HOST, allowed hosts, allowed origins, Sentry, Matomo, and API-environment settings before exposing the server.

Privacy notes

  • Search terms, dataset interests, resource IDs, user-agent headers, request URLs, tool names, and returned dataset rows may be visible to the hosted MCP service, MCP client, model provider, and logs.
  • The server includes optional Matomo and Sentry instrumentation in source; hosted deployments may apply their own analytics and error-reporting policies.
  • Public datasets can still contain personal data, geographic sensitivity, business identifiers, or regulated information; review source metadata and reuse terms before sharing results.
  • Avoid placing private investigation notes, customer context, or unpublished analysis inside prompts when a generic dataset search is enough.

Prerequisites

  • MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP or a remote MCP bridge such as mcp-remote.
  • Agreement on whether hosted data.gouv.fr MCP requests may be sent to the public hosted endpoint.
  • Public-data review process for datasets that may contain personal, sensitive, stale, or jurisdiction-specific information.
  • Python 3.13 or newer only if self-hosting the repository instead of using the hosted endpoint.

Schema details

Install type
cli
Troubleshooting
No
Source repository stats
Scope
Source repo
Collection metadata
Estimated setup
5 minutes
Difficulty
beginner
Full copyable content
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datagouv": {
      "url": "https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp",
      "type": "http"
    }
  }
}

About this resource

Content

data.gouv.fr MCP Server is the official MCP server for France's national open data platform. It lets Claude and other MCP clients search datasets and organizations, discover data services, inspect dataset and resource metadata, query tabular resources, retrieve metrics, and read data-service OpenAPI specs through the hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Use it when a research, civic-tech, policy, data-journalism, or analytics workflow needs conversational access to French public datasets without manually browsing the data.gouv.fr website first. The hosted endpoint is documented by the project as publicly available at https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp.

Source Review

These sources were reviewed on 2026-06-06. Prefer the live repository, README, license, Python package metadata, server entrypoint, tool registration, dataset search tool, tabular query tool, and Matomo helper for current hosted endpoint, self-hosting, tool, and instrumentation behavior.

Features

  • Search data.gouv.fr datasets by keyword, sort order, and update range.
  • Search organizations and data services.
  • Retrieve dataset, resource, organization, and data-service details.
  • List resources attached to a dataset.
  • Query tabular resource rows through the Tabular API without downloading the original CSV or XLSX file.
  • Retrieve metrics for supported datasets or resources.
  • Read OpenAPI specs for data services.
  • Run as a public hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint or self-host the Python server.

Installation

Add the hosted endpoint to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http datagouv https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp

For clients that use JSON configuration, use:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datagouv": {
      "url": "https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp",
      "type": "http"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop and some older local clients may need mcp-remote as documented in the upstream README.

Use Cases

  • Ask Claude to find French public datasets for a policy, journalism, or civic research question.
  • List resources for a dataset and inspect the available CSV, XLSX, or API files.
  • Preview tabular rows before deciding whether to download the full source file.
  • Explore organizations that publish data on a topic.
  • Retrieve metrics for dataset usage and visibility.
  • Read a data service's OpenAPI specification before integrating it into an application.

Safety and Privacy

The server is read-only, but public data is not automatically correct, current, complete, or safe to reuse without context. Check publisher metadata, resource freshness, licenses, and data quality before using outputs in operational, legal, policy, or public-facing decisions.

Hosted use sends prompts and tool calls to the public data.gouv.fr MCP endpoint. The source includes Matomo and Sentry integration points, so treat request URLs, user-agent context, tool names, errors, and dataset interests as potentially observable under the hosted service's policies.

Tabular resources may contain personal or sensitive public-sector data. Avoid asking an agent to collect large volumes of rows into chat, and review reuse terms before sharing or republishing results.

Duplicate Check

No data.gouv.fr MCP Server, datagouv/datagouv-mcp, datagouv-mcp, or matching data.gouv.fr MCP source URL was found in content/mcp.

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