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The Catalogue API provides information on the current listing of disseminated data products.

TOC - Eurostat table of contents

When interested in working with from Eurostat navigation tree , a classification of Eurostat datasets into hierarchical categories, it is possible to retrieve a TXT or XML representation named "table of contents" (TOC)

Please consult API - Detailed guidelines - Catalogue API - TOC for the information provided by each format

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XML

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/toc/xml

 XML table of contents is multilingual 

TXT

One text file is available per language:

DCAT - Data Catalogue Vocabulary

The catalogue of datasets can be retrieved as a set of RDF files expressed following Data Catalogue Vocabulary - Application Profile (DCAT-AP).

This data catalogue is sent by Eurostat to https://data.europa.eu/en portal on a daily basis.

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FULL

Retrieve the full catalogue

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/dcat/ESTAT/FULL

UPDATES

Updates are the list of modified datasets since last update.

 Eurostat datasets are updated twice a day, at 11:00 and at 23:00 in Europe/Brussels time zone

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/dcat/ESTAT/UPDATES

RSS feed

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a type of web feed that allows users to access updates to online content in a standardised, computer-readable format.

It allows to be informed about the last changes carried out to data products and code lists published by Eurostat.

Here are the URL’s of the RSS feeds:

For further details, please refer to API - Detailed guidelines - Catalogue API - RSS

Eurostat metabase.txt.gz

The metabase file includes the structure definition of all available Eurostat datasets via the API i.e. the dimensions codes used and their related positions codes in a delimiter-separated format separated by tabulations (TAB). One line of this file as the structure "Dataset Code TAB Dimension Code TAB Position Code" .

This list is alphabetically sorted on dataset code then dimension code and finally on position code list order.

Example for the "Agricultural Labour Input Statistics: absolute figures (1 000 annual work units)" dataset which is identified by the "aact_ali01" code.

aact_ali01  geo EU

aact_ali01  geo EU27_2020_EFTA

aact_ali01  geo EU27_2020

aact_ali01  geo EU28

aact_ali01  geo EU27_2007

[...]

aact_ali01  geo UK

aact_ali01  itm_newa    40000

aact_ali01  itm_newa    41000

aact_ali01  itm_newa    42000

aact_ali01  time    2022

aact_ali01  time    2021

[...]

aact_ali01  time    1973

This file can be loaded in Excel or processed with text manipulation tool of choice

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Metabase

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/metabase.txt.gz

 Eurostat metabase is refreshed twice a day, at 11:00 and at 23:00 in Europe/Brussels time zone