[ckan-discuss] "url" fields in API responses for datasets

Fri Jan 3 21:43:09 UTC 2014

Thanks! I'll send something cool in a couple weeks.

Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>Root level URL is better described as "homepage" (it was borrowed from
>python packages url which is usually the home page of the project).
>
>The urls you want are the resource urls.
>
>Rufus
>
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>On 24 December 2013 00:57, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to download datasets from CKAN.
>>
>> The API gives me two fields that might be the appropriate one. Here
>are
>> the relevant parts of the API response.
>>
>> {"url":..., "resources":[{ "url":... },...]}
>>
>> The resources seem to be sorted chronologically, so the url of the
>last
>> resource might make sense to use.
>>
>> On the other hand, maybe the url field in the root is the right one.
>>
>> The resources list might be empty, and the root url field may be
>null.
>> Also, these two versions of url aren't necessarily the same.
>>
>> What does the root-level url represent?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
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