Random institution of a given country

[Filippo Gianburrasca]

Is  there a way to get a random institution in a given country?

The API endpoint does not seem to have an option to specify the country

https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/get-single-entities/random-result

[Gabor Schubert]

Hi,

I think you can use the sample function for this purpose: https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/get-lists-of-entities/sample-entity-lists

For example this command gives a random Swedish institution: https://api.openalex.org/institutions?sample=1&filter=country_code:SE

Best regards,

Gabor Schubert

Stockholm University

[Dufois]

Hello,

thank you for your answers.

What is the difference between "sample" and "random" (https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/get-single-entities/random-result)?

What are the use cases in which we should prefer "random" over "sample"?

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[Gabor Schubert]

As far as I see the main difference is that with random  (which is a function for single entities) you can get one result , but with sample (which is a function for lists of entities) you can get up to 10000 results 

Gabor