How to extract Tags relevant to a Section

[Shahood ul Hassan]

Hello all,

I'm new to coding and have been learning Android programming for the past few months in my free time. I have been exploring this API for some days and wanna use it to build an app as part of my android online course assignment. I want to give users a list of all available sections and when they select a section, the next list should show all tags related to that section.

Tried to achieve this by http://content.guardianapis.com/sections?api-key=test&show-tags=all which shows a list of sections but not their relevant tags. If i achieve it with the help of writing code, i will have to first call news related to a section, then go through each one to collect all the tags, remove duplicates and then make a list of the unique ones. Thats a lot of code plus a lot of network calls.

So, is there any other way i could directly achieve this with the help of APi alone?

Thanks

[Shahood ul Hassan]

Anyone?

@Mariot Chauvin

[Mariot Chauvin]

Hi Shahood,

You can't retrieve tags associated to section because they are not linked at all.

Both concepts live independently, so you can find content with any tag as part of a section.

Hope this help,

Mariot  

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[Shahood ul Hassan]

Thanks but then why do we see section_Id as kind of a prefix to every tag_id?

For example, technology/google, technology/apple, politics/conservatives, politics/labour, society/social-care, society/policy. Apparently, there is a linkage or otherwise the tag_id would simply have been google, apple, conservatives.....etc.

On Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:21:02 UTC+5, Mariot Chauvin wrote:

Hi Shahood,

You can't retrieve tags associated to section because they are not linked at all.

Both concepts live independently, so you can find content with any tag as part of a section.

Hope this help,

Mariot  

On 16 November 2017 at 13:26, Shahood ul Hassan <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone?

@Mariot Chauvin

On Monday, 13 November 2017 20:12:13 UTC+5, Shahood ul Hassan wrote:

Hello all,

I'm new to coding and have been learning Android programming for the past few months in my free time. I have been exploring this API for some days and wanna use it to build an app as part of my android online course assignment. I want to give users a list of all available sections and when they select a section, the next list should show all tags related to that section.

Tried to achieve this by http://content.guardianapis.com/sections?api-key=test&show-tags=all which shows a list of sections but not their relevant tags. If i achieve it with the help of writing code, i will have to first call news related to a section, then go through each one to collect all the tags, remove duplicates and then make a list of the unique ones. Thats a lot of code plus a lot of network calls.

So, is there any other way i could directly achieve this with the help of APi alone?

Thanks

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[Mariot Chauvin]

Hi Shahood,

Sorry I misunderstand what you were trying to, and answered wrongly.

 Indeed a tag has always a section, and to retrieve all tags that have a particular section you have to use the section filter on the tag endpoint.

tags?page-size=100&type=keyword&section=lifeandstyle      

Hope this help,

Mariot 

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[Shahood ul Hassan]

Wow....thanks a lot. Exactly what i was looking for!

Now is it possible to get 0 news items if we click on any of the section/tag combo or this combo is created only when it is being attached to a news item?

[Mariot Chauvin]

it is possible to get 0 news items 

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