API Query Dissection
A dissection of the API query string for the Census API I have posted this in another topic, however it is hard to find. Host name, API sub-folder (this triggers our api to parse the following data). http://api.census.gov/data/ This portion refers to the DataSet/Instance pair (without both, it's difficult to determine what number you want back) 2010/sf1? This determines what variables to retrieve (required, ...more »
A dissection of the API query string for the Census API
I have posted this in another topic, however it is hard to find.
Host name, API sub-folder (this triggers our api to parse the following data).
This portion refers to the DataSet/Instance pair (without both, it's difficult to determine what number you want back)
2010/sf1?
This determines what variables to retrieve (required, must exist within the variable documentation for the API)
get=P012D007,P012D008,P012D009,P012D010,P012D011,P012D012
Geography, all currently available data sets require this to return proper numbers
&for=block+group:1&in=state:2+county:170+tract:000101
The reason for this is two-fold, allowing us to limit users, as well as providing us with information as to how many people are using what dataset.
&key=(yourkeyhere)
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