CKAN Data API

Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Endpoints »

The Data API can be accessed via the following actions of the CKAN action API.

Create https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_create
Update / Insert https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_upsert
Query https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search
Query (via SQL) https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql

OData https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/datastore/odata3.0/d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39
Querying »
Query example (first 5 results)

https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39&q=jones

Query example (via SQL statement)

https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search_sql?sql=SELECT * from "d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39" WHERE "title" LIKE 'jones'

OData example (first 5 results, skip 1)

https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/datastore/odata3.0/d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39?$top=5&$skip=1

OData example (first 5 results, return as OData JSON)

https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/datastore/odata3.0/d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39?$top=5&$format=json

Example: Javascript »

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

  var data = {
    resource_id: 'd9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
  };
  $.ajax({
    url: 'https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
      alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
  });
Example: Python »
import json
import urllib.request
url = 'https://transparentshowcases.idaho.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d9acb3c0-4722-47f5-89f3-1a6e924d6a39&limit=5&q=title:jones'  
fileobj = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
response_dict = json.loads(fileobj.read())
print(response_dict)