publicdata.au

Name: publicdata.au
Author: National-Digital

by National-Digitalversion 2.49.1i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameau.publicdata/mcp

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Search, filter, count and sum Australian government open data, with every version kept.

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

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User voiceiNo reviews yetReviews open together with accounts in a later step
Our basic checksi1 of 1 passedChecked from public information; code not scanned yet
UsageiNot measured yet★ –

What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Search & AI memory

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "publicdata": {
      "url": "https://publicdata.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "publicdata": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://publicdata.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

We have not read this server’s tool list yet; we check endpoints in rotation.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 6, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified against the domain publicdata.au (the registry checks domain ownership)
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
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Endpoint responds
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… Not checked yet
Sign-in with OAuth
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
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Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

More stars than 0% of the other 7247 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 73% of the other 7247 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 7247 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is publicdata.au safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (2.49.1) reached the registry 14 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Context7, Codebase Memory, Exa

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README from the maker

Open the README

Copied from the maker’s repo as written. PopNx MCP has not reviewed or endorsed it. HTML, images and scripts are removed. Links lead off this site.

publicdata.au

Australian government open data, republished as CSV, Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoJSON and GeoPackage at URLs that never change. Every release the publisher makes becomes a dated version that keeps its content, with its schema, provenance, the publisher's own file and a diff against the release before.

This is an independent site run by National Digital. No government agency runs it, funds it or has endorsed it. Each dataset is republished under the publisher's licence with the attribution that licence asks for.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from anyone. A dataset from the backlog is one YAML file in register/, and a new file format is one writer in pipeline/publicdata/serialise/writers/. CONTRIBUTING.md has the steps for those and for adapters, fixes and the clients, and publicdata.au/contribute gives the overview. Every dataset page links to the register entry it is built from.

Taking part means agreeing to the Code of Conduct. SUPPORT.md says where to ask for a dataset or for help, and a vulnerability is reported privately as SECURITY.md describes. GOVERNANCE.md says who decides, and AGENTS.md is for coding agents.

Layout

register/ one YAML per dataset: source, licence with evidence, attribution, field allow-list, key, partitions, status. Backlog and blocked entries live here too.
store/ one manifest per fetched version. Bytes are in R2 and pulled by hash before a build.
pipeline/ the Python build: publicdata register validate | fetch | build | gate | split | store pull|push | dist-push | shards | purge.
functions/ Cloudflare Pages Functions: votes, requests, saved dashboards, the query API, latest/ redirects, R2 fallback.
explorer/ and package.json the explorer's browser libraries, copied into the build.
clients/ the packages that call the site from other languages: clients/python is publicdata-au on PyPI and clients/r is publicdataau for CRAN. They take any slug, so a new dataset needs no release.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md the rules that decide the code.
docs/CORRECTIONS.md how a fault in a published file is reported and fixed, and the log of every correction.
docs/adr/ the decision records behind those rules: what each decided, what was weighed against it and what it costs.
docs/ACCESSIBILITY.md the WCAG 2.2 AAA target, what CI enforces and the exceptions.

Run it

CONTRIBUTING.md sets up a working copy, builds the fixtures, fetches a real dataset and walks through the routine changes. No credentials are needed for any of it.

Deploy

.github/workflows/deploy.yml builds, gates, splits, pushes large files to R2 and deploys to the Pages project publicdata-au on every push to main, with a preview per pull request from this repository. Credentials sit in GitHub environments. production, which only main can use, holds the deploy's and the hubs'; preview holds a pull request preview's; fetch, also main only, holds the fetch's and the catalogue's. Each holds a Cloudflare token of its own, and these are the R2 buckets each token can reach:

Environment	Workflows	Writes	Only reads
`production`	`deploy.yml` on `main`	`publicdata-dist`, `publicdata-build-cache`	`publicdata-raw`
`preview`	`deploy.yml` on a pull request	none	`publicdata-raw`, `publicdata-dist`, `publicdata-build-cache`
`fetch`	`fetch.yml`, `catalogue.yml`	`publicdata-raw`	none

The build cache, from which a deploy takes the versions it does not build again, has a bucket of its own, so that only the production deploy can change what the site publishes from it.

.github/workflows/fetch.yml reads every live source each Tuesday and the live feeds every other day, and opens one pull request per government whose sources changed. .github/workflows/catalogue.yml harvests the portals' dataset lists. Some portals turn away cloud addresses, so both run on a runner of our own in Australia. Its runner group admits only those two workflows on main, and they start only on their schedule or when a maintainer runs them. Both open their pull requests as the GitHub App "publicdata.au fetch", whose key is a secret only those environments hold. A ruleset lets only that app create or push data/ branches, so no person can open a pull request as the automation. .github/workflows/data-pr.yml approves those pull requests and nothing else.

Licence

The code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (LICENSE). If you run a modified copy as a service, you must offer its users the source of your changes. The clients in clients/ are under the MIT licence in each package's LICENSE.

The publicdata.au name and mark are not covered by the code licence; BRAND.md says what a copy must change.

The data is not ours to license. Each dataset is published under its publisher's licence, which its register entry, its manifest and every file name, with the attribution that licence asks for. The text we write for the register is under CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE-DATA.md). Test extracts, the brand typeface and the explorer's libraries are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md; the typeface is RandomMaerks' free package, redistributed under its own licence.

publicdata.au

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

publicdata.au

Contributing

Layout

Run it

Deploy

Licence