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Vendors.ie Open Datasets

The Vendors.ie verified Irish vendor dataset is open under CC BY 4.0. Pull the JSON directly, cite us, and you can build whatever you like on top. Datasets are updated weekly, with a dedicated check for Peppol e-invoicing coverage.

Available datasets

Pull the data as JSON

Each file returns a JSON object with a count, licence, and source reference. Files are formatted for easy reading and cached for one hour.

  • All vendors

    113 records

    Every Irish business software vendor in the Vendors.ie dataset, with verified profile metadata and Peppol readiness flags where available.

    Last updated · application/json

    https://vendors.ie/data/vendors.json View JSON

  • Peppol-ready Ireland

    7 records

    Irish business software with confirmed Peppol e-invoicing support, flagged on first-party evidence only.

    Last updated · application/json

    https://vendors.ie/data/peppol-ready-ireland.json View JSON

  • Dataset catalogue

    2 records

    Catalogue listing every Vendors.ie open dataset with description, record count, and last-updated date.

    Last updated · application/json

    https://vendors.ie/data/index.json View JSON

Machine-readable surfaces

How machines and researchers read the dataset

The dataset is the product; these are the surfaces that expose it. Humans browse the editorial pages, AI agents and research tools consume the structured files, and the verification methodology explains how every record is built and re-checked.

  • /dataset.json The full machine-readable catalogue: every vendor and category with pricing and compliance summaries. The canonical structured surface.
  • /llms.txt The LLM corpus: a prose index of the dataset for answer engines and retrieval tools.
  • /llms-full.txt The expanded LLM corpus, with the full per-vendor detail for deeper retrieval.
  • /methodology How the dataset is built, sourced, and re-verified on a fixed cadence. The data-quality discipline.

MCP server

A read-only Model Context Protocol server exposes the dataset to AI agents as tools (list vendors, get a vendor, list categories, search, and dataset metadata). Register it against the repo and query the dataset directly from an agent. Setup instructions live in mcp/README.md.

Public API

A public API with authenticated access is forthcoming. No commitment date yet. The JSON endpoints above cover most use cases today; if you need programmatic access at scale, get in touch through the contact page.

How to cite

Attribution under CC BY 4.0

The dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You can copy, adapt, and republish so long as you credit Vendors.ie. A link back to vendors.ie/data is the cleanest credit; a short citation works too:

Vendors.ie Open Data, accessed YYYY-MM-DD, CC BY 4.0. https://vendors.ie/data

Curl examples

Quick start

Pipe through jq for filtering and shaping. The files are cached for one hour at the edge, so polling more than once an hour is wasteful.

Every vendor

curl -s https://vendors.ie/data/vendors.json | jq '.data | length'

Peppol-ready slice

curl -s https://vendors.ie/data/peppol-ready-ireland.json | jq '.data[] | {name, website, peppol_evidence_url}'

Dataset catalogue

curl -s https://vendors.ie/data/index.json | jq '.datasets[] | {name, url, count}'