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

[Thomas Levine]

Oops I missed this. Well that's good to know too!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:24:03AM -0500, Joel Natividad wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> You can always create an account on demo.ckan.org.  You can also try
> nycdata.pediacities.com, since you're in NYC.
> We can spin up a VM sandbox too if you want shell access to poke around and
> do stuff that you can only do as an admin or from the CLI.
> 
> Best,
> Joel
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> 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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