City of Ottawa Open Data

Access 670+ datasets from the City of Ottawa open data portal. Search, fetch, and analyze city data on transit, environment, health, elections, and more via...

Security Scan

The skill's code and instructions line up with its stated purpose (querying Ottawa's ArcGIS-based open data); it makes network requests only to open.ottawa.ca and arcgis.com and writes a small local cache, and it does not request credentials or other unrelated privileges.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (City of Ottawa Open Data via ArcGIS Hub) match the included script and SKILL.md. The script queries the DCAT feed and ArcGIS item endpoints and exposes search/list/info/fetch/downloads features consistent with the description.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md instructs running python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py which is consistent with the included script, but the skill's declared 'required binaries' is empty even though the runtime assumes a Python 3 interpreter on PATH. The script only accesses open.ottawa.ca and arcgis.com endpoints and its own .cache file under the script directory; it does not read other system files or environment variables.

Install Mechanism

No install spec; this is instruction-only plus a bundled Python script. Nothing is downloaded or executed from arbitrary URLs during install, and no external installers are invoked.

Credentials

The skill requires no environment variables, no secrets, and the code does not reference any credentials. Network access is limited to public Ottawa/ArcGIS endpoints, which is proportionate to the purpose.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and user-invocable; the skill does not request permanent platform presence nor does it modify other skills or system-wide settings. It writes a local cache file (.cache/catalog_cache.json) in its code directory to avoid repeated network requests.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and limited to fetching public Ottawa open-data via ArcGIS. Before installing, note: (1) it expects Python 3 to be available (the metadata does not list python3 as a required binary); (2) it will make outbound HTTPS requests to open.ottawa.ca and arcgis.com and will create a small .cache/catalog_cache.json file next to the script; (3) because it prints dataset contents, review any dataset output if you're running in an environment with data-handling policies. If you need absolute assurance, inspect the included scripts/ottawa_data.py yourself — it is small, readable, and contains no obfuscated code or hidden endpoints.

Access and analyze 670+ open datasets from the City of Ottawa via ArcGIS Hub. Data covers transit, environment, health, elections, infrastructure, and more.

Portal: https://open.ottawa.ca Platform: ArcGIS Hub

Quick Start

# Search for datasets
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py search "transit"

# List all datasets
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py list

# View dataset info
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py info "Ottawa Ward Boundaries"

# Fetch data
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py fetch "Ottawa Ward Boundaries" --limit 5

# Export as CSV
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py fetch "Bus Routes" --limit 100 --csv > routes.csv

# List direct download URLs
python3 scripts/ottawa_data.py downloads

Commands Reference

Command	Description
search <query>	Search datasets by keyword
list	List all datasets
info <name-or-id>	Show dataset metadata and data source
fetch <name-or-id>	Fetch data (opts: --limit, --csv)
downloads	List datasets with direct download URLs

Data Sources

Ottawa datasets come in three types:

1. ArcGIS Feature Services — Queryable geospatial data
2. ArcGIS Map Services — Read-only map layers
3. Document Links — Direct file downloads

Data Sources

All data from open.ottawa.ca.