fedspendingtransparency / usaspending-api

Server application to serve U.S. federal spending data via a RESTful API
https://www.usaspending.gov
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Filter parameters dictionary #1667

Open justindbk opened 5 years ago

justindbk commented 5 years ago

I'm looking for a dictionary of potential values that the filter parameters may have.

For my purposes specifically, I'm hoping for a listing of the "award_type_codes" with human-readable names (i.e. not single letters). These codes in the endpoint documentation don't seem to match values in similarly names variables in the Data Dictionary - for instance, ContractAwardType.

For my own purposes, I'd ideally like to be able to filter to return only grants (rather than total obligations/spending). However, there's clearly a need for some sort of dictionary of these parameter values for others across the board.

lisaam commented 5 years ago

Hi Justin,

A list of Award Type Codes and corresponding human-readable descriptions, is available here: http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/whitepapers/types/.