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

Fri Jan 10 15:38:32 UTC 2014

Ross Jones gave me an account. Thanks!

Here's the difference, in case anyone is curious.
https://github.com/tlevine/open-data/blob/master/reports/dead-links-check_ckan_api.json

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 02:02:37PM +0000, Thomas Levine wrote:
> Or, could anyone give me an account on a CKAN site
> where I can try using the FileStore and see how resources
> are displayed?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:53:32AM +0000, Thomas Levine wrote:
> > 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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