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obrasgovr

obrasgovr provides a modern R interface to the ObrasGov Open Data API, maintained by the Brazilian federal government. It retrieves data about infrastructure projects, physical execution, budget commitments, contracts, geometries, feasibility studies, and the status histories of suspended or cancelled projects.

Turn Brazil’s public infrastructure data into analysis-ready R tables with a consistent, typed and pagination-aware interface.

Why use obrasgovr?

The official API is extensive and paginated. Using it directly requires building URLs, handling HTTP errors, joining pages, and transforming nested JSON. obrasgovr handles those tasks and returns analysis-ready tibbles without discarding one-to-many relationships. It is designed for researchers, oversight bodies, public managers, data journalists, and civil society organizations.

Key features include:

  • a consistent English snake_case interface, with Portuguese compatibility aliases;
  • HTTP/2 over TLS negotiation, retries, and throttling that averages 60 requests per minute, allowing short bursts;
  • explicit pagination and retrieval metadata;
  • dates converted to Date and the update timestamp converted to POSIXct;
  • nested objects preserved as list-columns;
  • offline unit tests and optional integration tests against the official API.

The API’s filter names, response fields, and categorical values remain in Portuguese because they are part of the upstream ObrasGov contract.

Installation

The package is under development and is not yet on CRAN. Install the GitHub version with:

install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("StrategicProjects/obrasgovr")

Usage 

library(obrasgovr)

projects_pe <- get_projects(
  uf_principal = "PE",
  situacao = "Em execução",
  page_size = 100
)

projects_pe
result_metadata(projects_pe)

Inspect resource and filter names without accessing the internet:

Retrieving multiple pages must be requested explicitly:

contracts <- get_contracts(
  id_projeto_investimento = "134851.26-07",
  all_pages = TRUE,
  page_limit = 20
)

Portuguese aliases remain available for compatibility. They retain the original Portuguese pagination argument names:

projetos_pe <- obter_projetos(
  uf_principal = "PE",
  tamanho_da_pagina = 100
)

See vignette("obrasgovr") for a complete introduction, vignette("end-to-end-workflow") for a reproducible multi-resource analysis, and vignette("pagination-and-nested-data") for pagination and list-columns.

Current API

This package exclusively uses the current environment at https://api-publica.obrasgov.gestao.gov.br/obras. The previous ObrasGov API is not supported here: ObrasGov has set 31 August 2026 as the deadline for migrating away from that previous API to this environment. Until that date, the previous API keeps running and being updated. See the official announcement.

Contributing and conduct

Contributions are welcome. Read the contributing guide and the Code of Conduct before opening an issue or pull request.

License

MIT © obrasgovr authors.