data.gouv.fr MCP

Official MCP server for data.gouv.fr, the French national Open Data platform. Enables AI assistants to search, explore, and analyze public datasets through natural language conversation. Provides tools for dataset search, resource inspection, tabular data querying, dataservice/API discovery, and usage metrics.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vunknown

Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Other france open-data government datasets mcp data-gouv public-data csv tabular

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

100

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

French government open data API (data.gouv.fr). Public data — low security risk. API key for write operations. HTTPS only. Government data quality varies by dataset.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

You need to explore French government open data programmatically or want an AI assistant to help analyze public French datasets without manual browsing.

Avoid When

You need non-French open data, or need to write/upload datasets. Also avoid if you need STDIO or SSE transport — only streamable HTTP is supported.

Use Cases

• Searching French government open datasets by keyword
• Querying and filtering CSV/Excel data from public datasets via natural language
• Discovering external APIs registered on data.gouv.fr with OpenAPI specs
• Retrieving usage metrics (visits, downloads) for specific datasets
• Parsing and analyzing large public data files up to 500 MB

Not For

• Non-French open data (use country-specific equivalents)
• Private or restricted datasets
• Writing or uploading data to data.gouv.fr
• Real-time streaming data

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Webhooks

Authentication

OAuth: No Scopes: No

No authentication required. All tools are read-only. Public endpoint freely accessible.

Pricing

Model: open_source

Free tier: Yes

Requires CC: No

MIT licensed. Official government project, hosted instance is free to use.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

cursor

Idempotent

Full

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Only supports streamable HTTP transport — no STDIO or SSE
⚠ Tabular API has size limits: CSV <= 100 MB, XLSX <= 12.5 MB
⚠ Most dataset descriptions and metadata are in French
⚠ Claude Desktop requires npx mcp-remote proxy for HTTP transport
⚠ Demo environment has separate data from production

Alternatives

{'name': 'data.gouv.fr website', 'note': 'Manual browsing, no AI integration'} {'name': 'data.gouv.fr REST API', 'note': 'Direct API access without MCP wrapper'} {'name': 'OpenDataSoft MCP', 'note': 'Alternative open data platform with MCP support'}

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.