[ckan-dev] python ckanclient querying multiple tags

Thu May 10 10:20:55 UTC 2012

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> I'm trying to use the python ckanclient [1] to query for datasets with a certain set of multiple tags.
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> Based on [2], I was able to cobble together a successful URL query:
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> (A)
> http://thedatahub.org/api/search/dataset?q=tags:helpme&tags:lod
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> But how to call this through the ckanclient?
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> The following works to get one tag:
> self.ckan.package_search('tags:helpme')
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> but neither of these works to results similar to (A) above:
> self.ckan.package_search('tags:helpme&tags:lod') 
> self.ckan.package_search('tags:helpme&tags:lod')
> self.ckan.package_search([ 'tags:helpme', tags:lod' ] )
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> What is the appropriate query string to give package_search to get datasets with multiple tags?

Hi Tim, does this do what you want?

    ckan.package_search('tags:helpme+tags:lod')