Ask Finland’s open data.
Aura knows 13,897 datasets from 46 sources and 394 publishers – from Statistics Finland and THL to municipal map services. Ask in English, Finnish or Swedish: you get the number, the dataset and the source it came from.
Three steps from question to rows
An AI assistant uses Aura the way a research librarian would: find the right dataset, learn what is in it, then fetch the rows straight from the publisher’s API.
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Find
find_dataSearches every source. Region filters understand municipalities, regions, wellbeing services counties and postcodes, in Finnish and Swedish.
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Understand
inspect_datasetReturns the description, fields, licence, quality, link availability and how to query the data.
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Fetch
query_sourceFetches rows from the source: PxWeb, WFS, Finnish Meteorological Institute queries, OData, CSV and JSON. The exact query URL and licence come with every answer.
Connect your AI assistant
Aura speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients can use it with one setting.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http aura https://aura.futuai.fi/mcpClaude Desktop, Cursor and others
{
"mcpServers": {
"aura": { "url": "https://aura.futuai.fi/mcp" }
}
}No account needed. The service is read-only: search tools are available, tools that modify the database are not. Endpoint: https://aura.futuai.fi/mcp
For publishers and maintainers: https://aura.futuai.fi/mcp/laatu – metadata quality, missing fields and resource availability for your own datasets.
Built for AI agents
- Every response is structured and follows a published schema (outputSchema). The agent never has to parse free text.
- Numbers come with the source, the exact query URL, the licence and the retrieval time, so every answer can be checked.
- Responses suggest sensible next calls (next_actions). Errors carry a code, a hint and a corrected call.
- The public tool surface is small: five tools and instructions under 1,500 characters, so Aura does not eat the agent’s context.
- Machine-readable service description:
/llms.txt.
Who uses it
- Residents
- What do apartments cost per square metre in my postcode area?
- Journalists
- Where did unemployment rise most last year?
- Researchers
- Which dataset has forest basal area on a map grid?
- Municipal staff
- How does our population structure compare with our neighbours?
- Developers
- Which API gives live train positions?
- Data publishers
- Which of our datasets lack a description or a licence?
Browse by topic
Publishers describe their datasets with keywords (in Finnish). Each keyword leads to its datasets and to related topics.
politiikka 1591 puolueohjelma 1586 yhteentoimivuus 823 erityisohjelma 770 liikenne 633 koodisto 609 luokitus 609 vaaliohjelma 445 kunta 436 kuntatalous 426 tilinpäätös 426 kuntayhtymä 415 julkinen talous 399 Kansallinen 384 kunnallistalous 380 Alueellinen 306 paikkatietoaineisto 303 kouluterveys 281 Liikenneverkot 274 yleisohjelma 269 maa 268 Kunnat 263 Maankäyttö 255 met 207
Aura Pro
This server runs the extended version of Aura. On top of the open version it offers:
- Ready-made indicators
- More than 200 indicators for municipalities, regions and wellbeing services counties in a single call: population, unemployment rate, housing prices, morbidity index. Tools get_facts, time_series and compare_areas.
- Search inside the data
- The index includes statistical classification values, column names of spatial datasets and code list concepts, so a term is found even when no title contains it.
- Ask in any language
- Vector search connects English and Swedish questions to the Finnish-language catalogue.
- Honest numbers
- When two statistics measure the same thing differently, the answer gives both and explains the difference.
The same approach for your own data
Aura is not tied to open data. The same structure works for an organisation’s own databases, APIs and spatial data services: a harvester per source, one metadata catalogue, search that understands Finnish, and MCP tools that cite the source of every number. An AI assistant can then find the organisation’s own data the way it now finds a Statistics Finland table.
Harvesters exist for CKAN, PxWeb, WFS, WMS, ArcGIS, OData, OpenAPI and GTFS sources, and a new source is usually one file. The quality profile shows which datasets lack a description, a licence or a working link.
The code, instructions for writing a new harvester and the discussion are on GitHub: github.com/trotor/aura.
Open source – run it yourself
Aura is MIT licensed and all of its code is public. This server differs somewhat from what you get on GitHub – Aura Pro. Your own instance runs the open version.
Search on this server also reaches inside the datasets. Indeksiin kuuluvat myös tilastotaulujen luokitusarvot, paikkatietoaineistojen sarakenimet, koodistojen käsitteet ja puolueohjelmien sanasto. Siksi haku löytää aineiston sanalla, joka ei esiinny yhdessäkään otsikossa — esimerkiksi “luomutuottajat”, “maalajieroosio” tai “kulotus”.
git clone https://github.com/trotor/aura
cd aura && python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
aura serve --httpgithub.com/trotor/aura. The database is part of the repository, so the datasets are there right after cloning – no harvesting needed.
This service is hosted by Futuai Oy.
To improve the service, it records search terms, requested areas, datasets and indicators, and daily tool usage counts. No user, session or IP address is stored.
The catalogue in numbers
- datasets
- 13,897
- resources
- 33,435
- publishers
- 394
- sources
- 46
Sources (46)
| Source | Datasets | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| sotkanet | 3797 | 2026-09-27 07:23 |
| statfin | 2119 | 2026-10-08 14:43 |
| avoindata.fi | 1887 | 2026-09-27 07:12 |
| pohtiva | 1586 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| paikkatietoikkuna | 700 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| luke | 663 | 2026-09-27 19:38 |
| syke | 644 | 2026-09-27 19:39 |
| koodistot | 608 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| hri.fi | 593 | 2026-09-27 07:13 |
| digitraffic | 175 | 2026-09-27 07:19 |
| fmi | 160 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| lipas-api | 139 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| luke-opendata | 128 | 2026-07-26 14:13 |
| kelasto | 86 | 2026-09-27 10:01 |
| traficom-tilastot | 81 | 2026-09-27 19:39 |
| sanastot | 49 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| valtiokonttori | 48 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| vipunen | 47 | 2026-09-27 07:36 |
| metsakeskus | 46 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| digitransit | 40 | 2026-09-27 07:19 |
| ruokavirasto | 38 | 2026-09-28 16:10 |
| kunnat | 36 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| traficom | 32 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| vaalirahoitus | 27 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| fluentoutdoors | 24 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| manual | 16 | 2026-02-20 21:58 |
| lajitietokeskus | 11 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| mml | 11 | 2026-10-10 16:28 |
| tulospalvelu | 11 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| luke-kartta | 10 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| statfin-geo | 9 | 2026-09-27 19:39 |
| finavia | 8 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| gtk | 8 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| eduskunta | 7 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| smartsmear | 7 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| overture | 6 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| ptv | 6 | 2026-09-27 07:22 |
| finap | 5 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| finlex | 5 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| paituli | 5 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| vayla | 5 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| taustakartat | 4 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| lipas | 3 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |
| prh | 3 | 2026-09-27 19:39 |
| kirjastot | 2 | 2026-09-27 19:39 |
| stuk | 2 | 2026-09-27 07:21 |