Explanation of the Junar and the API

1. 24/1/2012
Developing the Caribbean

2. What is Junar?
Open Data platform to discover and use data

3. What can you do in Junar?
• Search for Data
• Extract data from webpages or webfiles
• Create Dashboards
• Add open and dynamic data to office tools (G Spreadsheet
Excel)
• Integrate open data into applications (API)

4. Live Demo
….cross your fingers…

5. Getting a developers key
Junar.com/developers

6. My API information

7. My API information
• Wiki: http://wiki.junar.com/index.php/API
• Wrappers:
– Python (https://github.com/joaquinnunez/junar-api-python-client)
– PHP (https://github.com/joaquinnunez/junar-api-php-client)
– Java (https://github.com/msalgado/junar-api-java-client)
– Node JS (https://github.com/seykron/junar-javascript-sdk)

8. Junar’s API
Current version of the API is 1.0
The API supports HTTP/REST protocols and it is
organized in the following modules:
• Methods for searching dashboards and data
streams.
• Methods for accessing a particular dashboard or
data stream object properties.
• Methods for invoking data streams .

9. Junar’s API Outputs
Current supported formats:
• JSON
• JSON array
• CSV
• TSV
• Excel
• Pretty JSON
• XML

10. Junar’s API Limitations
• Trial accounts => 1 request / 5 seconds
• Total API calls => 1000 / month

11. Junar’s API Invoking
To be able to call our you need:
• Junar API Key
And in the case of invoking Dashboards or Data Streams:
• GUID
The GUID is used to identify your Dashboard or Data Stream
when you need to call it externally from Junar.

12. Junar’s API Invoking

13. Junar’s API Invoking

14. Sample code snippets
You can find code snippets and all our API
wrappers
here:
• http://wiki.junar.com/index.php/API#Snippets
_of_code_and_API_Wrappers

15. New features!
• New XML output format
• New Data Stream parameter options:
– pLimit : Integer , records per page
– pPage : Integer, page index starting at 0
• If params missing return will be a 404.

16. Questions?
contact@junar.com | @Junar | Skype: junar.support / junar.dev

17. THANKS!
contact@junar.com | @Junar | Skype: junar.support / junar.dev