[ckan-dev] Is it possible to get all datasets AND metadata in a single RESTful API call ?

Vladimir Mašala vladimirmasala at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 08:38:24 UTC 2014


Hi all, i have API question...

I am trying to get data from one of datasets (
http://ckan-gradzagreb.cloudapp.net/dataset/vrtici) is it possible to do
that via API?
I feel it should be very easy and simple but i can't find way..

What am i missing?

Thnx for help



On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:

> There is one API endpoint, but if you use it too much, you'll end up
> hammering the CKAN server anyway (we only fixed it to use solr recently and
> it's not yet in a released version):
> http://master.ckan.org/api/3/action/current_dataset_list_with_resources
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> On 25 March 2014 18:37, Martin Stephenson <stephenson.martin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm looking at the CKAN APIs and I want to know if there is a RESTful API
>> call that will give me a list of all datasets including their full metadata.
>> Right now I can do this by get the list of datasets, then for each
>> dataset I can individually get it's full metadata and list of downloadable
>> files.
>> Is there a way to do this in a single call ? Otherwise I will really be
>> hammering the CKAN server with possibly 1000's of calls to get all the
>> metadata (i.e. a call per dataset) ?
>> Thanks !
>>
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>>
>> Martin Stephenson
>> Email : stephenson.martin at gmail.com
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