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USGS ScienceBase catalog — no-auth discovery + retrieval of USGS federal energy/geoscience data products (oil & gas assessments, geothermal, critical minerals, basin reports, maps) by keyword and location. No auth.

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What you can ask

  • “What does USGS ScienceBase have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent USGS ScienceBase records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does USGS ScienceBase cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

USGS ScienceBase catalog — no-auth discovery + retrieval of USGS federal energy/geoscience data products (oil & gas assessments, geothermal, critical minerals, basin reports, maps) by keyword and location. No auth.

Connector ID usgs-sciencebase

Provenance

PublisherUSGS ScienceBase
API basehttps://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (6)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchItems

    read

    Keyword search across the USGS ScienceBase catalog

    Required paramsq

    q required; max defaults 20 and caps 100; supports offset and fields.

  • getItem

    read

    Full catalog item record (contacts, spatial, dates, files/distribution links)

    Required paramsitemId

    Args: itemId.

  • listChildItems

    read

    Child items of a parent collection

    Required paramsparentId

    Args: parentId, max? (cap 100), offset? for pages past the first.

  • searchItemsBySpatial

    read

    Spatial search by WKT polygon (USGS ScienceBase).

    Required paramswkt

    Args: wkt (BARE WKT — not wrapped in Intersects()), q?, max?, offset?.

  • searchItemsByCategory

    read

    Filter the catalog by browse category

    Required paramsbrowseCategory

    Args: browseCategory (Data|Map|Project|Publication|…), q?, max?, offset?.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Static API overview — format=json requirement, pagination, bare-WKT spatial query