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Aaron Steele

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Aug 8, 2011, 7:43:47 PM8/8/11

to Dusty, Joyce Gross, Tim Noble, Nelson Rios, vertnet-developers email list

Hi Dusty, Joyce, Nelson, and Tim,

Just a quick heads up that we have an early prototype for the VertNet
search API. As our main integration partners, we want your feedback
early and often about the API design. For example, is it easy to use?
Is it fast enough? Is there something missing? How would you change
it?

Here's the wiki page that documents the API:
https://github.com/VertNet/Software/wiki/Prototype-Search-API

Here's the service endpoint for testing:
http://canary.vert-net.appspot.com/api/search

Here's an example call:
http://canary.vert-net.appspot.com/api/search?q=california,aves&genus=limnodromus&county=alameda

So right now we have about 1000 test records in the datastore. If you
want access to the admin datastore viewer so that you can see what's
in there, query it, etc, let me know. If you already have access,
here's the link:
https://appengine.google.com/datastore/explorer?submitted=1&app_id=vert-net&kind=RecordIndex