--- title: "data.gouv.fr MCP server · Connect AI agents to French open data" description: "Connect inference.eu agents to the official data.gouv.fr MCP server. Search French open datasets, query tables and explore public APIs, with no key needed." canonical: "https://inference.eu/connect/data-gouv/" language: "en" --- MCP servers · Public data # data.gouv.fr MCP server: connect AI agents to French open data from the EU The data.gouv.fr team runs an official, open-source MCP server for France's national open data platform. It lets an agent search datasets, read tabular files and explore the public APIs catalogued on the platform, without any key. inference.eu agents connect to the public endpoint, so analysts can ask questions about public data in plain language. [Contact sales](https://inference.eu/contact/)[What agents can do with it](#tools) 1. 01Authentication: None 2. 02Official server 3. 03EU data centres ## What agents can do with it - 1 ### Search and inspect datasets \`search\_datasets\`, \`get\_dataset\_info\`, \`list\_dataset\_resources\` and \`search\_organizations\` find datasets by keyword and return metadata, licence, publisher and the files each dataset contains. - 2 ### Query tabular data \`query\_resource\_data\` reads rows from CSV and Excel resources through the Tabular API, page by page, and \`get\_resource\_info\` returns format, size and the raw file URL for larger files. - 3 ### Explore public APIs and usage \`search\_dataservices\`, \`get\_dataservice\_info\` and \`get\_dataservice\_openapi\_spec\` describe third-party public APIs such as the address or Sirene APIs, and \`get\_metrics\` returns monthly visits and downloads. ## What data.gouv.fr and its MCP server are data.gouv.fr is France's national open data platform, run by the interministerial digital directorate (DINUM). It hosts tens of thousands of datasets from ministries, local authorities, public bodies and companies, plus a catalogue of public APIs. Its MCP server, `datagouv-mcp`, is an experiment by the data.gouv.fr team and is published under the MIT licence on GitHub. A public instance runs at `https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp` over Streamable HTTP, with read-only tools and no access restrictions. You can also run it yourself with Docker. ## What agents can do with data.gouv.fr A policy analyst can ask which air quality datasets were updated this week, let the agent find them, preview the files and compare two regions. A journalist can ask for the latest public data on electric vehicle charging points and get a table with sources. Agents also help developers: they search the API catalogue, read an OpenAPI description and explain how to call, for example, the national address API. Combined with other connectors, an agent can enrich a list of companies with public data before a market study. ## Setup and authentication No account or key is needed. On inference.eu, add the data.gouv.fr connector to an agent, and it connects to the public endpoint `https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp`. The tools appear straight away, and you can choose which agents and people may use them. If your organisation prefers its own instance, deploy the server from the GitHub repository with Docker and point the connector at your URL instead. The `DATAGOUV_API_ENV` setting switches between the production platform and the demo platform for testing. ## Data protection and where the data goes The tools only read open data published under open licences, so there is no personal account data involved. Your agent's search queries go to the data.gouv.fr server, which is operated by the French administration. On inference.eu, the model that reads the results runs in EU data centres. Keep in mind that questions themselves are sent to the server as search terms, so avoid putting confidential details into queries. Reuse of the data follows each dataset's licence, usually the Licence Ouverte 2.0. ## Approvals and safe use All tools are read-only, so the main risk is a wrong answer, not a wrong action. The data.gouv.fr team itself warns that language models can return incomplete or inaccurate answers from public data. Ask agents to cite the dataset, file and date for every figure, and check important numbers in the source file. On inference.eu you can still require approval for calls in other connectors that publish or send results, so a person reviews a report before it leaves your team. ## data.gouv.fr Vendor DINUM (Direction interministérielle du numérique) Vendor based in France Category Public data Authentication None Transport Remote (HTTP) Server [Official server](https://github.com/datagouv/datagouv-mcp) Documentation [guides.data.gouv.fr](https://guides.data.gouv.fr/intelligence-artificielle/le-serveur-mcp-de-data.gouv.fr) ## data.gouv.fr: common questions The questions buyers, developers and legal teams ask us most. Something missing? Ask us directly. It is the official MCP server of data.gouv.fr, built by the platform's team. It lets AI assistants and agents search, explore and analyse datasets from the French national open data platform through conversation, using read-only tools. Yes. It is developed by the data.gouv.fr team at DINUM and published in the datagouv organisation on GitHub. The team describes it as an experiment, so tools and behaviour may still change. No. The public instance at https://mcp.data.gouv.fr/mcp has no access restrictions, and its tools are read-only. You only need a client that supports Streamable HTTP, such as an inference.eu agent, and nothing has to be stored in a vault. Dataset tools such as search\_datasets, get\_dataset\_info and list\_dataset\_resources, query\_resource\_data for tabular files, tools for the public API catalogue including OpenAPI summaries, search\_organizations to browse publishers, and get\_metrics for monthly visits and downloads. It reads rows through the Tabular API, up to 200 per page, for CSV files up to 100 MB and Excel files up to 12.5 MB. For larger files, get\_resource\_info returns the raw file URL so the data can be fetched another way. Yes. The repository includes a Dockerfile and docker-compose setup. You can choose the port and switch between the production and demo platforms. Point the inference.eu connector at your own URL instead of the public one. No. The server uses Streamable HTTP only; stdio and SSE are not supported. Clients that only speak stdio can use a bridge such as mcp-remote, but agents on inference.eu connect over HTTP directly. Not today. The server only reads public data. The team has said it may test editing and publishing later, carefully and with sovereign models, but for now every tool is read-only and nothing on the platform can be changed. [Ask a question](https://inference.eu/contact/) ## Related [All MCP servers](https://inference.eu/connect/#directory) - [INSEE SireneConnect inference.eu agents to INSEE's Sirene register through an open-source MCP server. Look up SIREN and SIRET numbers, NAF codes and economic series.Company data](https://inference.eu/connect/insee-sirene/) - [LégifranceConnect inference.eu agents to Légifrance through an MCP server built on the official PISTE API. 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