Get collections for a content provider

[Stuart Charters]

Hi,

 

I'm just starting out with the DigitalNZ API.

 

What I would like to do is restrict a search to a collection of a content provider.

 

Essentially provide a similar functionality to that of the Content Provider & Websites filter on the main DigitalNZ search.

 

I can get a list of content providers from the content providers API call, but is there a way to then get the collections that belong to that content provider?

 

As an e.g The Treasury has two collections, The Treasury and the National Infrastructure Unit.

 

I can hard code a restriction with a faceted search but want to allow the user to choose the restriction.

 

Cheers

Stuart

[Tim McNamara]

Hi Stuart, welcome to the list.

The easiest way to do this is to build a custom search, which is a simple form-driven tool that results in a URL you can ping whenever you want data.

http://www.digitalnz.org/custom_searches/new
http://www.digitalnz.org/developers/api-docs-v3/custom-search-records-api-v3

Otherwise you can build the search query up yourself:

http://api.digitalnz.org/v3/records.json?api_key=[your_api_key]&text=economics&and=[content_partner][]=The+Treasury (untested!)

Docs here: http://www.digitalnz.org/developers/api-docs-v3/search-records-api-v3

[Chris McDowall]

Tim beat me to it. That's absolutely right. 

To get everything provided by Treasure you can do:

http://api.digitalnz.org/v3/records.json?api_key=[YOUR_API_KEY]&and[content_partner]=The+Treasury

[Stuart Charters]

To achieve what I was after I realised I could do it with a search that just returned the facet values of the display collection for the content partner that I wanted.

 

http://api.digitalnz.org/v3/records.xml?api_key=[MY_API_KEY]&per_page=0&facets=display_collection&facets_per_page=20&and[content_partner][]=The+Treasury

 

Thanks

Stuart