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

Fri Jan 10 04:53:32 UTC 2014

One more thing!

(How) can I tell whether a resource is coming from the FileStore,
rather than from an ordinary file on the internet?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:43:14AM +0000, Rufus Pollock 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
> 
> 
> 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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