Working with the GFW APIs

[geohacker]

Just documenting things as I get upto speed with the GFW APIs. There are two API (as I just discovered on the call with @01painadam):

Data API (data-api.globalforestwatch.org)

I created a bot account with sajjad+bot@developmentseed.org to generate access token and api key. All are stored in the DevSeed DevOps 1password vault.

• API docs https://data-api.globalforestwatch.org/
• openAPI schema to feed into the agent https://data-api.globalforestwatch.org/openapi.json
• Looks like a FastAPI backend
• API key / access token seem interchangeable. Use them as --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

GFW Application API (globalforestwatch.org/api/gfw/v1)

@01painadam could we get access to the API docs for this? Also perhaps it's good to give the team a heads up that we intend to use this API programmatically, outside of the GFW frontend, we could potentially use a application=project-zeno if that's helpful!

cc @yellowcap @srmsoumya @leothomas @LanesGood @sunu

[01painadam]

Thanks @geohacker:

The Application API is aliasing resourcewatch api and drives the front-end map layers. Docs here https://resource-watch.github.io/doc-api/reference.html#resource-watch-api-reference