Scribed by Sage P.
“Room A Section 1: Topic- Intro to API’s
DPLA- Digital Public Library
API-Application programming interface
Behind the scenes, to get data
Why?
Scrape data from webite
Data in a structured way
need
Chrome
Postman in chrome (Add app)
(Don’t have to sign up)
hit “send”
It will email a key
API request
Protocol-Domain-version-action-parameter
Switch to GET. Enter domain: api/dpla/v2/items
Params (parameter)
Key & Value
Api_key… # from email
Key: q (query)
Value: (search)
Click send
0 is first not 1
Count -# of matched
Start Limit Docs
Different way to search, defined on Dpla website
Specific info back
(ID & titles) put in fields Pagination Saving it is by send & download
More way to access
Web console
Web application- developed gwu library
Commandline- twarc (twitter app)
Code- can always write code
(depend on API and what you want)
Read documentation (to understand)
You may not understand data if you don’t
Fairly stable
Tweeting slides”