Help

Are you looking to get started using OpenSpending? Have a look at some of our guides and get rolling! If you have questions, get in touch.

The OpenSpending Guide is available in multiple languages:

• English
• French
• Italian
• Nepali
• Romanian
• Spanish

Many other translations are under development. Check back for new translations or help add your language.

Video guides

• OpenSpending Upload, Step 1: adding a dataset
• OpenSpending Upload, Step 2: data modelling
• How to Fix Errors in OpenSpending
• Introduction to Spending Stories
• Talk from "The Big Clean", Prague 2012

Tutorials

• D3.js Sankey diagrams with the OpenSpending API

OpenSpending API

OpenSpending aims to be a simple-to-use platform for developers by offering a variety of APIs that can be used to create visualizations, reports, and other applications. These help pages describe the APIs and provide examples of their use.

• API conventions
• Aggregate API
• REST resources
• Full-text search API
• Personal tax API
• Dataset loading API