Access IPT via web services
Hi IPTers,
I'm looking for a way to access an IPT instance as a web service. What I would like to do is poll for a list of the available resources in some machine friendly form, such as JSON or XML and use it to decide whether there have been any changes that I am interested in.
I think that I can probably do it via playing around with the the RSS feed but I would like to see if there is a more direct route that I could take or an extension that someone has already developed.
Doug Palmer
Dear Doug,
Perhaps you could use the GBIF Portal API? This is how we generate IPT statistics: http://www.gbif.org/ipt/stats Going this route there is the caveat, however, that the datasets you are interested in will have to be registered with GBIF.
Otherwise the IPT’s RSS feed is your best bet.
Best regards,
Kyle
PS: Anyone is welcome to submit an enhancement request or code patch to see new features implemented.
On 19 Nov 2014, at 02:57, Doug Palmer Doug.Palmer@csiro.au wrote:
Hi IPTers,
I'm looking for a way to access an IPT instance as a web service. What I would like to do is poll for a list of the available resources in some machine friendly form, such as JSON or XML and use it to decide whether there have been any changes that I am interested in.
I think that I can probably do it via playing around with the the RSS feed but I would like to see if there is a more direct route that I could take or an extension that someone has already developed.
Doug Palmer _______________________________________________ IPT mailing list IPT@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt
Thanks Kyle,
I need to grab the datasets before they go to GBIF, so RSS-ho
Doug
On 20/11/14 21:57, Kyle Braak wrote:
Dear Doug,
Perhaps you could use the GBIF Portal API http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary? This is how we generate IPT statistics: http://www.gbif.org/ipt/stats Going this route there is the caveat, however, that the datasets you are interested in will have to be registered with GBIF.
Otherwise the IPT’s RSS feed is your best bet.
Best regards,
Kyle
PS: Anyone is welcome to submit an enhancement request https://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/issues/entry?template=Feature%20request or code patch to see new features implemented.
On 19 Nov 2014, at 02:57, Doug Palmer <Doug.Palmer@csiro.au mailto:Doug.Palmer@csiro.au> wrote:
Hi IPTers,
I'm looking for a way to access an IPT instance as a web service. What I would like to do is poll for a list of the available resources in some machine friendly form, such as JSON or XML and use it to decide whether there have been any changes that I am interested in.
I think that I can probably do it via playing around with the the RSS feed but I would like to see if there is a more direct route that I could take or an extension that someone has already developed.
Doug Palmer _______________________________________________ IPT mailing list IPT@lists.gbif.org mailto:IPT@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt
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