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Open Government Data Initiative
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Change Request - Catalog API #32

Closed JMayrbaeurl closed 12 years ago

JMayrbaeurl commented 12 years ago

It would be quite nice if we could get a ckan style API (http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api.html ) for accessing the catalog. Currently I can't find a way to access the metadata of datasets that's shown in the Data Browser portal. Or do I miss something?

Kind regards Juergen

nikg commented 12 years ago

HI Juergen,

The data catalogue (Data Browser) runs on top of a Data Service that provides the necessray API (oData XML/Atom, JSON, etc.) You can see the description & taxonomy here: https://github.com/openlab/DataLab#data-service

The data + metadata are accessible via the Data Service.

Let me know any questions! Nik

JMayrbaeurl commented 12 years ago

This seems to be a misunderstanding. I was asking for an API to access the details information of datasets as they are shown in the portal (Data Browser). E.g. the external name of the dataset, the category and the status of a dataset.

SyntaxC4 commented 12 years ago

As Nik mentioned all of the data from the Data Browser is surfaced thought the Data Service API. You can expose the URLs by running Fiddler (which acts as a proxy to list out request/response information)

I think what you're asking for is documentation on the REST Endpoints (API Docs) is this correct?