Talk:IDigBio API: Difference between revisions

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666 bytes removed , 9 May 2014

kill the call to version endpoint since output includes so many useless types (no data or not really implemented API)

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-Calling just the base URL will return a list of API version endpoints. For example a GET request to "http://api.idigbio.org" will return JSON data like the example below.
+Calling just the base URL will return a list of API version endpoints. For example a GET request to "http://api.idigbio.org" will return the following JSON data:
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     "check" : "http://api.idigbio.org/check",
     "v0" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v0/"
-}
-</pre>
-and calling a version URL endpoint will return a list of major data types available for that version.  For example, for v1 of the API a GET request to ' http://api.idigbio.org/v1" will return:
-<pre>
-{
-   "aggregates" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/aggregates",
-   "records" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/records",
-   "mediaaps" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/mediaaps",
-   "taxa" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/taxa",
-   "people" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/people",
-   "organizations" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/organizations",
-   "recordsets" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/recordsets",
-   "mediarecords" : "http://api.idigbio.org/v1/mediarecords"
 }
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