How I Built a 148K+ Training Directory from French Government Open Data

French government publishes a dataset called the Liste Publique des Organismes de Formation — a CSV file listing every officially registered training organization in the country. 148,000+ entries. Updated monthly. Free to download, no authentication required. I used it to build AnnuaireQualiopi.fr , a searchable directory of Qualiopi-certified training centers in France. Here's the full technical story — including the parts where things broke. The French Open Data Ecosystem data.gouv.fr is France's official open data portal, managed by Etalab (a government agency under the Prime Minister's office). It hosts thousands of datasets from ministries, agencies, local authorities, and public bodies. The interesting part for developers: most datasets come with a proper API. You can query the catalog programmatically, subscribe to resource update events, and download files via stable URIs. The liste-publique-des-organismes-de-formation dataset URL doesn't change between updates — the file is ju