n8n-nodes-ckan

This n8n node lets you interact with the CKAN API directly in n8n workflows.

n8n is a workflow automation platform.
CKAN is an open-source data portal platform.

Tested with:

• n8n v2.7.4
• ckan 2.11.4

Installation

Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.

Features

Read-only operations require no API token. Write operations require a CKAN API token set in the credentials.
See the CKAN API docs for reference.

Read operations (no API token required)

Packages (Datasets)

• Status Show - Check CKAN instance status
• Package List - List all dataset names on the instance
• Package Search - Search datasets with Solr query, filters, facets and sorting
• Package Show - Get full metadata of a dataset by ID or name
• Package Activity List - Activity stream for a dataset
• Recently Changed Packages Activity List - Site-wide activity stream of recently modified datasets

Resources

• Resource Show - Get metadata of a single resource by ID
• Resource Search - Search resources across all public datasets by field values

DataStore

• Datastore Search - Query rows in a DataStore resource with filters, full-text search, sorting and pagination

Organizations

• Organization List - List organization names (or full objects) on the instance
• Organization Show - Get full details of an organization

Groups

• Group List - List group names (or full objects) on the instance
• Group Show - Get full details of a group
• Group Activity List - Activity stream for a group
• Group Package Show - List datasets belonging to a group

Users & Tags

• User List - List users on the instance
• Tag List - List tags used by datasets, optionally filtered by vocabulary

Write operations (API token required)

Packages (Datasets)

• Package Create - Create a new dataset
• Package Update - Fully replace an existing dataset
• Package Patch - Partially update a dataset (only provided fields change)
• Package Delete - Soft-delete a dataset

Resources

• Resource Create - Add a new resource to a dataset
• Resource Update - Fully replace an existing resource
• Resource Patch - Partially update a resource

DataStore

• Datastore Create - Create or replace a DataStore table with optional schema
• Datastore Upsert - Insert or update rows in a DataStore table

Groups

• Group Create - Create a new group
• Group Update - Fully replace a group
• Group Patch - Partially update a group
• Group Delete - Soft-delete a group
• Group Purge - Permanently delete a group (sysadmin only)
• Group Member Create - Add a user to a group or update their role
• Group Member Delete - Remove a user from a group

Organizations

• Organization Create - Create a new organization
• Organization Update - Fully replace an organization
• Organization Patch - Partially update an organization
• Organization Delete - Soft-delete an organization
• Organization Purge - Permanently delete an organization (sysadmin only)
• Organization Member Create - Add a user to an organization or update their role
• Organization Member Delete - Remove a user from an organization

Usage

1. Just enter the CKAN URL
2. Select the CKAN API function
3. The required and optional parameters will be shown

Heads up: package_search returns paged results (max 1000 per request). datastore_search returns up to 32 000 rows per request. Use the offset parameter to paginate.

Resources

• n8n community nodes documentation
• CKAN documentation
• CKAN API reference

License

MIT

Credits

Credits apply to the valuable work of:

• n8n
• CKAN

Author

(C) 2026, Ondics GmbH, https://ondics.de/