generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: >-
  CRAN (crandb.r-pkg.org), PyPI (pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json) and the bcgov GitHub
  organization, reached from the BC Data Catalogue API documentation at
  bcgov.github.io/data-publication.
provider: British Columbia Data Catalogue
providerId: british-columbia-data-catalogue
note: >-
  DataBC publishes no JavaScript, Java, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP or Rust client for the BC
  Data Catalogue. The first-party client surface is entirely R, published to CRAN from
  the bcgov GitHub organization with the Province of British Columbia named as copyright
  holder. Python and generic CKAN clients that call the catalogue exist but are
  community-maintained and are recorded here as official: false.
summary:
  total: 4
  official: 2
  registries:
    - cran
    - pypi
packages:
  - name: bcdata
    registry: cran
    official: true
    language: R
    url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=bcdata
    repository: https://github.com/bcgov/bcdata
    docs: https://bcgov.github.io/bcdata/
    version: 0.5.3
    published: '2026-07-09'
    license: Apache-2.0
    description: >-
      Search, query and download data and metadata from the B.C. Data Catalogue, including
      records held in the B.C. Geographic Warehouse via the DataBC WFS.
    evidence: https://crandb.r-pkg.org/bcdata
    first_party_basis: >-
      Published from the bcgov GitHub organization (Government of British Columbia) and
      lists "Province of British Columbia [cph]" as copyright holder; its declared URLs
      include https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca.
  - name: bcmaps
    registry: cran
    official: true
    language: R
    url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=bcmaps
    repository: https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps
    docs: https://bcgov.github.io/bcmaps/
    version: 2.3.0
    published: '2026-02-20'
    description: >-
      Map layers and spatial utilities for British Columbia, drawing boundary layers from
      the B.C. Data Catalogue and the DataBC WFS.
    evidence: https://crandb.r-pkg.org/bcmaps
    first_party_basis: Published from the bcgov (Government of British Columbia) GitHub organization.
  - name: bcdata
    registry: pypi
    official: false
    language: Python
    url: https://pypi.org/project/bcdata/
    repository: https://github.com/smnorris/bcdata
    version: 0.17.1
    published: '2026-08-21'
    description: Download open data from the B.C. Data Catalogue and DataBC WFS.
    evidence: https://pypi.org/pypi/bcdata/json
    note: >-
      Community package maintained under the smnorris GitHub account, not bcgov. Shares a
      name with the official CRAN package but is a separate project.
  - name: ckanapi
    registry: pypi
    official: false
    language: Python
    url: https://pypi.org/project/ckanapi/
    version: '4.11'
    published: null
    description: >-
      Generic CKAN Action API client. Named in the BC Data Catalogue's own API
      documentation as the Python client used in its worked examples.
    evidence: https://pypi.org/pypi/ckanapi/json
    docs: https://bcgov.github.io/data-publication/pages/dps_bcdc_api_w_common_calls.html
    note: >-
      Not a BC product — a CKAN-community client for any CKAN portal. version read from
      the PyPI metadata endpoint; published date not recorded on that response, left null
      rather than guessed.