[ckan-discuss] [wdmmg-discuss] Request for scraping and keeping in closer contact

[Donovan Hide]

http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/trac/ticket/336

Ended up putting the JSONP support into RestController. Let me know if
you need any changes.

Cheers,
Donovan.

On 1 June 2010 11:48, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Removing cc to wdmmg-discuss and adding ckan-discuss ...
>
> On 28 May 2010 23:10, Donovan Hide <donovanhide at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rufus, Alistair,
>>
>> I've attached a patch which might help with the integration of
>> Scraperwiki with CKAN. It basically adds to the CKAN API:
>
> This looks good. I guess one question is that we might want to use
> api/rest/resource for existing package resources and for this to be a
> query (basically you are looking for a string match on
> http://scraperwiki.com/....)
>
> Would you be happy to ticket this (you should be able to) on
> http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/trac and attach patch and then we can
> implement :)
>
>> http://ckan.net/api/rest/resource
>>
>> which returns something like:
>>
>> {
>>    "http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/show/welsh-primary-schools-performance-data/":
>> [
>>        "http://ckan.net/package/income_tax",
>>        "http://ckan.net/package/schools"
>>    ],
>>    "http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/export/nottingham-council-schools/": [
>>        "http://ckan.net/package/schools"
>>    ],
>>    "http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/export/income-tax-rates/": [
>>        "http://ckan.Alistair Turnbull <apt1002 at mupsych.org>,net/package/income_tax"
>>    ],
>>    ......
>> }
>>
>> This would enable some jQuery on ScraperWiki to run live queries
>> against CKAN to check if a scraper is referenced on the site. If it
>> seems like a good idea, it might make sense to make a POST version
>> which only returns a single record. Let me know any thoughts.
>
> Nice idea. Will you need jsonp support for this to work?
>
> rufus
>