search

sensiblecodeio / custard

A platform for tools that do stuff with data
https://quickcode.io
Other
56 stars 13 forks source link

I want to access a list of my datasets in Python #536

Closed IanHopkinson closed 9 years ago

IanHopkinson commented 10 years ago

I want to access a list of my datasets in Python so that I can carry out analyses on multiple datasets in a hub. Right now I want to do this from my local machine, eventually I could see it being a tool. The information returned by: https://scraperwiki.com/api/shortName/datasets Is ideal.

drj11 commented 10 years ago

What are you trying to do? Is it valuable?

drj11 commented 10 years ago

(Technically, to make it convenient to access the API from "outside the web app" we'd need to add some sort of token based authentication. There are express modules for doing this, it's all doable).

IanHopkinson commented 10 years ago

I've got a set of twitter follower tools and a set of twitter search tools in a datahub, I want to do analyses between those data sets i.e. compare the followers of different accounts and the results of different searches.

This is for a proposal to a customer in the social media area, so it is valuable.

drj11 commented 10 years ago

Yes, comparing different datasets does sound quite useful.

pwaller commented 10 years ago

Could we provide ident-based authentication to subsets of our API, or is that likely to be problematic?

IanHopkinson commented 10 years ago

This one I still want!

At the time David and I had a discussion as to the relevance of this for two quite distinct use cases:

  1. Accessing one dataset from another dataset (i.e. intra-site)
  2. Accessing a hub from a local machine (i.e. extra-site)