# datasets.ai MCP Server

Find public government datasets across US, Canadian and European Union portals. Search by topic and publisher, discover available filters, and read dataset descriptions with source and resource links. Designed for researchers, analysts and developers. The service indexes metadata; underlying files remain with their publishers. It does not download, clean or analyse data, or guarantee that every resource is current or available. No account or API key is required. Source licenses apply to reuse. See the privacy policy for MCP request logging.

**Publisher claimed.** 3 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [education](/mcp/for/education), [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [productivity](/mcp/for/productivity). Published by [datasets.ai](https://datasets.ai/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://datasets.ai/developers#mcp)

## Status

Pod has not dialled datasets.ai yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 3 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- [`get_dataset`](/mcp/tool/get-dataset)
- `list_facets`
- `search_datasets`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://api.datasets.ai/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datasets-ai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.datasets.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used datasets.ai yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## Related servers

- [Arcopolis](/mcp/arcopolis) — Also in Education
- [Articulate](/mcp/articulate) — Also in Education
- [Audiala](/mcp/audiala) — Also in Education
- [Common Sense Privacy](/mcp/common-sense-privacy) — Also in Education
- [DataCamp](/mcp/datacamp) — Also in Education
- [DocCheck Flexikon](/mcp/doccheck-flexikon) — Also in Education
- [Drry](/mcp/drry) — Also in Education
- [EbooksDepository](/mcp/ebooksdepository) — Also in Education
- [EduInsights](/mcp/eduinsights) — Also in Education
- [Flevy](/mcp/flevy) — Also in Education
- [Grammaropolis](/mcp/grammaropolis) — Also in Education
- [HaitiDocs](/mcp/haitidocs) — Also in Education

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find datasets.ai, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "datasets.ai",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=datasets.ai' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/datasets-ai.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/datasets-ai.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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