Access Data Programmatically¶

There is a way of programmatic access to data using Applied Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Automatic documentation (provided by ReDoc)¶

https://citizenscience.gcoos.org/openapi/v1/redoc

Independently downloading and unzipping data each time may not be efficient and does not explicitly tie your data to your analysis. You can automate the data download process using Python or R.

We currently provide a simply API to access your data in JSON format.

For example, when you use python, the following code will download entire dataset of Nature's Academy.

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import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_json("https://citizenscience.gcoos.org/openapi/v1/natures_academy/data")

Interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI)¶

https://citizenscience.gcoos.org/openapi/v1/docs/

If you want to give it try, you can test it through this page.