Enhance your Dataset and Foster Interoperability
Open Supply Hub's API provides an ongoing connection to the OS Hub database that ensures you're working with clean, standardized data that can be used across various platforms and schemas
Stop Wasting Time on Manual Data Work
You need a clean, reliable, duplicate-free supplier database - but you're stuck spending hours comparing Excel spreadsheets instead of doing the impactful work you were hired for. Whether you're preparing for ESG compliance, providing supply chain mapping services, or running cross-sector projects for a civil society organization, manual data deduplication is consuming your time and creating problems.
Can an automated process really match manual accuracy while saving time? Absolutely!
The Solution: Automated Data Matching
Open Supply Hub's API connects you directly to our comprehensive database with detailed information on more than one million production locations - their geolocation, processing capabilities, product types, workforce size, and other organizations connected to these locations.
The OS Hub API handles the heavy lifting:
- Wrong production location name? It suggests the correct one
- Incorrect address? It finds the best match
- Found duplicates? It merges them and provides one unique ID for your reports
- Missing data? It adds GPS coordinates, worker counts, and more
Enhance Your Dataset and Foster Interoperability
Open Supply Hub's API provides an ongoing connection to the OS Hub database that ensures you're working with clean, standardized data that can be used across various platforms and schemas.
All data uploaded to Open Supply Hub is cleaned and deduplicated by a matching algorithm, and then assigned an industry-standard ID, the OS ID - which can be used to easily share data with partners, integrate with other platforms, and collaborate with organizations across your supply chain ecosystem.
Result: You save hours of manual work while getting higher quality, interoperable data that works everywhere.
Let's take a closer look...
Pricing
*For customers in the UK and Europe, Value Added Tax (VAT) will be added to the price(s) listed above
Wondering which package is best for your organization?
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find your answer in our FAQs ↓
What our customers are saying
By using Open Supply Hub as the central source of truth for facility location data, we can match our facilities easily and quickly with any external dataset.
- Worldly
Thanks to the integration with OS Hub’s API, we can collaborate with more partners who use the same identifiers, which allows us to analyze data in a simpler and more secure way.
As a result, we benefit from increased efficiency operation-wise.
- amfori
Technical features
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Deduplication algorithm
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Allocation of a unique identifier for each production site (the OS ID)
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Identification of incorrect names and addresses
Ability to upload data anonymously
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Instant access to a constantly growing database
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Bespoke onboarding
IT support
Frequently Asked Questions
A “call” to OS Hub’s servers corresponds to:
- Downloading facilities = 1 call for up to 50 facilities at a time (ie: downloading 33 facilities = 1 call, downloading 100 facilities = 2 calls, downloading 101 facilities = 3 calls)
- Uploading one facility = 1 call
- Confirming / rejecting 1 potential match with the database = 1 call
So knowing how many calls you will make depends on how often you choose to query our database (once a day? Once a week? Or once a month?) and on the amount of data you are uploading or downloading. Your team of developers and project managers are best suited to help you answer this question.
In any case, if you need more calls than you initially thought, you can upgrade your package at any time.
Absolutely. To get started, please contact our team using this form and let us know you're interested in the API. We'll schedule a time to discuss your needs and, if you'd like to test the functionalities, we can provide access to our testing (staging) environment.
Please note that the data in this environment is dummy data and should not be relied upon for any real-world applications.
To protect OS Hub’s servers. This precaution is to prevent excessive calls that could overwhelm the servers, ensuring other customers can also access and utilize the service without disruption.
You will receive an email from our team within 2 business days with the instructions to get access to the OS Hub’s API and integration documentation. You will have the opportunity to schedule an onboarding call if you wish to do so. You will keep access to exclusive IT support during the whole duration of your integration with the API.
If it turns out OS Hub’s API is not for you, you will be able to cancel your subscription from your customer space.
This will depend on the availability of your IT Team as well as on your current infrastructure. Upon signing up, you will be provided with all the documentation you need as well as onboarding support. You can integrate with OS Hub's API in as little as 2 weeks.
Absolutely. Please contact us at info@opensupplyhub.org and we will set his up for you.
Access to data on OS Hub will always be free. With the API, we offer the automation of manual tasks, as well as exclusive IT support. As a small non-profit, we are not able to do this free of charge. We priced the API in a way that makes it as accessible as possible for all sorts of organizations, while covering our needs as a non-profit.
Open Supply Hub offers a program for qualifying civil society organizations to apply for free / discounted access to this Premium Feature. Check out our free / discounted API access policy to see if you qualify. If you believe you do, apply through this form.
All Open Supply Hub account holders are able to download up to 5,000 production locations at no cost. If you would like to download more data, you can purchase access to download additional production locations in increments of 10,000.
You can also get a full or custom download of the data in OS Hub, with additional analysis performed as desired. If you are interested in learning more, please fill out this form.
Detailed information about data downloads can be found here.
Unlike manual data contributions to Open Supply Hub, the API works on a per facility basis. When pushing data to OS Hub via API, users are able to choose for each facility whether or not to be listed publicly as the data Contributor, e.g. as "Worldly". When users choose to contribute anonymously, their contributions are listed as "A multi-stakeholder initiative", "A service provider", "A civil society organization" etc.
Of course. Fill out this form and our team will be happy to support you.
You can read the API's Terms of Service here