Search API

[dunn]

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious, but if I don't know the entity ID of an entry, how can I find it using the API? In other words, shouldn't I be able to send an API request for "Baier" and receive an ID (or list of possible IDs) for that string?

So far the only way I can mimic this behavior is by doing curl 'https://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/entity?redirect=true&q=Baier' and parsing the response. Or if I know the exact name, I can follow the redirect and look at the location in the header with curl -IL 'https://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/entity?redirect=true&q=Annette%20Baier'

But this is a messy workaround. How do applications usually request data from InPhO without someone first manually figuring out the IDs corresponding to the relevant entities?

[colinallen]

Good point. We will consider ways of implementing this. In the mean time one can fetch the full list of entities at https://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/entity.json and do one's own string matching on that.

[dunn]

Oh thank you, I overlooked the base entity document, that's very useful.