# Public REST API[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/governance/publicapi/index.html#public-rest-api "Permalink to this headline")

The Dataiku Govern public API allows you to interact with Govern from any external system. It allows you to perform a large variety of administration and maintenance operations, in addition to access to items and other data managed by Dataiku Govern.

The Dataiku Govern public API is available:

* As a Python API client. This allows you to easily send commands to the public API from a Python program. This is the recommended way to interact with the API.

* As an HTTP REST API. This lets you interact with Dataiku Govern from any program that can send an HTTP request. This requires more work.

Example usage of the Python client can be found at API for Dataiku Govern

* Features

* Public API Keys

+ Global API keys

* The REST API

+ Request and response formats

+ Authentication

+ Authorization

+ Methods reference
