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Tools to Work with the Internet Archive and GDELT Television Explorer in R
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Updated API Info #13

Open MikeGruz opened 6 years ago

MikeGruz commented 6 years ago

It looks like the GDELT Project has provided documentation for the 2.0 API - I'm working on a project that makes use of this data, so I'm already almost finished updating the query_tv function to work with the changes (documentation can be found here).

I'll submit a pull request in the next day or so with changes. Mostly these involve names of API parameters, date formatting (they're now requiring date-time for date ranges) and the like.

hrbrmstr commented 6 years ago

Many thanks!

Do you know if they have they fixed some of the issues with the other API parameters? I recall there being severe issues with choosing stations and station groupings (e.g. "National" was generating errors on their back-end even in their web tools).

Def make sure you add yourself to the DESCRIPTION for this (pls). I'll get this on CRAN ASAP after the PR.

MikeGruz commented 6 years ago

Yep! I think the National search is working again - albeit in a wonky fashion (unlike station parameters, "National" has to be surrounded by quotes - think it has to do with sub-markets such as San Francisco being two words).

I should already be in the DESCRIPTION - added that the last go-round. Will be in touch!

MikeGruz commented 6 years ago

Brief update: I have emailed GDELT about their dates - for some reason JSON results for date spans under a week don't include times. Hopefully can get some resolution on that soon, otherwise short time periods really aren't worth much using the API.

hrbrmstr commented 6 years ago

Is it my imagination or did GDELT stop returning the text for everything but video clips?

MikeGruz commented 6 years ago

Yeah - it kind of looks like it. I wonder what's going on there, if it's an error or they just changed the overall operation of the API.