Search Texas open data.

Searches the Texas Open Data Portal's dataset catalog like its browse page: dataset name, id, description, last update and link. Only datasets published on data.texas.gov itself are returned (federated datasets from other portals are left out). First page of up to 20 datasets. Returns an empty list when nothing matches.

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Site: Texas Open Data Portal, United States
Version: v1
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sha256: 6ccd5317ed64…

Run it with your agent

after installing Wield

Ask in plain words. Your agent finds this recipe and calls it:

“Search Texas open data.”

Read-only: it changes nothing on the site. No login needed.

{
  "tool": "run",
  "arguments": {
    "recipe_id": "data.texas.gov/search-open-data",
    "params": {
      "query": "water quality"
    }
  }
}

Requests

sent from your browser, in order

1GET/api/catalog/v1?domains&limit&only&qThe catalog API the browse page uses (/api/catalog/v1), restricted to datasets on data.texas.gov. Read-only GET, JSON, no key.

Parameters

from your agent

querystringrequiredKeyword to find datasets, e.g. 'water quality', 'hospital charges', 'tax rates'

Returns

to your agent

datasetsobject[]dataset_id, description, name, updated_at, url

querystring

Where it can send

data.texas.gov

Anything else is blocked by the extension.

Reads from your session

Nothing. Your browser attaches the site's cookies by itself.

Used only in requests to the addresses on the left. Never sent to wield.run or your agent.

Checks

a run passes when

length(output.datasets) > `0`
length(output.datasets[?starts_with(url, 'https://data.texas.gov/')]) == length(output.datasets)
length(output.datasets[?name != `null`]) == length(output.datasets)

Raw recipe

Served as canonical JSON from /api/v1/recipes/data.texas.gov/search-open-data, so its sha256 matches the ETag and the index.

Check it yourself

curl -s https://wield.run/api/v1/recipes/data.texas.gov/search-open-data | shasum -a 256
# 6ccd5317ed64feb026b1649ca01d8ff70e100b37981a6a65ad30dde898e39986

data.texas.gov/search-open-data.json, v1

{
  "description": "Searches the Texas Open Data Portal's dataset catalog like its browse page: dataset name, id, description, last update and link. Only datasets published on data.texas.gov itself are returned (federated datasets from other portals are left out). First page of up to 20 datasets. Returns an empty list when nothing matches.",
  "effect": "read",
  "id": "data.texas.gov/search-open-data",
  "keywords": [
    "texas",
    "open data",
    "data.texas.gov",
    "datasets",
    "government data",
    "state data",
    "statistics",
    "water quality",
    "hospital charges",
    "tax rates",
    "portal",
    "socrata",
    "daten",
    "offene daten"
  ],
  "output": {
    "schema": {
      "properties": {
        "datasets": {
          "items": {
            "properties": {
              "dataset_id": {
                "description": "Four-by-four Socrata id, e.g. 7fq8-wig2",
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "description": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "updated_at": {
                "description": "ISO-8601 time of the last data update",
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "url": {
                "description": "Dataset page on data.texas.gov",
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "name",
              "url"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query",
        "datasets"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "value": "{query: params.query, datasets: steps.search.results[].{name: resource.name, dataset_id: resource.id || `null`, description: resource.description || `null`, updated_at: resource.updatedAt || `null`, url: permalink}}"
  },
  "params": {
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "description": "Keyword to find datasets, e.g. 'water quality', 'hospital charges', 'tax rates'",
        "maxLength": 100,
        "minLength": 2,
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ],
    "type": "object"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "har",
    "notes": "The browse page (/browse?q=) is client-rendered, so the recipe calls /api/catalog/v1 directly, which the site's own frontend bundle uses. domains=data.texas.gov keeps only datasets published on this portal; without it the catalog also returns federated datasets from other city and state portals with off-site permalinks. The url is the dataset permalink under data.texas.gov/d/<id>. robots.txt does not disallow /api/catalog.",
    "recorded_at": "2026-11-08T16:39:39.000Z",
    "recorded_by": "wield-forge (claude-haiku agent)"
  },
  "requires_login": false,
  "schema": "https://wield.run/schema/recipe/v1.json",
  "site": {
    "country": "US",
    "id": "data.texas.gov",
    "language": "en",
    "name": "Texas Open Data Portal",
    "origin": "https://data.texas.gov",
    "origins": [
      "https://data.texas.gov"
    ]
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "description": "The catalog API the browse page uses (/api/catalog/v1), restricted to datasets on data.texas.gov. Read-only GET, JSON, no key.",
      "expect": {
        "content_type": "json",
        "status": [
          200
        ]
      },
      "extract": {
        "json": {
          "results": "results[?resource.name != `null`]"
        }
      },
      "id": "search",
      "request": {
        "headers": {
          "Accept": "application/json"
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "query": {
          "domains": "data.texas.gov",
          "limit": 20,
          "only": "datasets",
          "q": "{{ params.query }}"
        },
        "url": "/api/catalog/v1"
      }
    }
  ],
  "task": "Search Texas open data",
  "tos": {
    "notes": "Not reviewed. One search page per call, the same page a visitor loads. The site's terms on automated access were not checked.",
    "reviewed": false
  },
  "verify": {
    "checks": [
      "length(output.datasets) > `0`",
      "length(output.datasets[?starts_with(url, 'https://data.texas.gov/')]) == length(output.datasets)",
      "length(output.datasets[?name != `null`]) == length(output.datasets)"
    ],
    "example_params": {
      "query": "water quality"
    },
    "max_ms": 5000
  },
  "version": 1
}