/Developer Program

Exercises for Using APIs

What’s Out There?

• Status

Making a Developer Hub

• /Developer Kit
• API Release Kit
• Open Source Template

What Next?

• Ensuring Discoverability
• Developer Engagement
• Public Feedback

Where to Go From Here

• Agency Checklist
• Write APIs
• Request for Information
• Working Group
• API Standards
• API Strategy

Building APIS

• CSV-to-API
• DataBeam
• Very Simple API
  • CSV-based

Let Us Help You

• Trainings
• Direct Support
• API Usability Testing
• api.data.gov

Tools

Two ways to publish APIs

CSV To API

Take a CSV

• https://github.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/blob/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv

Get CSV as JSONP (default behavior)

• http://labs.data.gov/csv-to-api/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv

Get results as XML

• http://labs.data.gov/csv-to-api/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv&format=xml

Get results as HTML

• http://labs.data.gov/csv-to-api/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv&format=html

Filter by a field

• http://labs.data.gov/csv-to-api/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv&Color=Brown
• http://labs.data.gov/csv-to-api/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv&Color=White

Databeam

Take a CSV

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA/Very-Simple-API-2/gh-pages/_data/objects.csv

Go To Town

• http://labs.data.gov/databeam/