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

Sat Mar 29 11:36:41 UTC 2014

Hello Vladimir,

Is this what you want?
http://ckan-gradzagreb.cloudapp.net/api/action/package_show?id=vrtici

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On 29 March 2014 14:08, Vladimir Mašala <vladimirmasala at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 !
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Martin Stephenson
>>> Email : stephenson.martin at gmail.com
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