ckan-ts

ckan-ts is a fully tested and documented TypeScript wrapper for retrieving data from v3 CKAN APIs asynchronously. Its main aim is to provide parsed outputs using a coherent and consistent vocabulary across all resource types, and handle non-standard data provided by different organizations.

Usage

Install ckan-ts with npm i ckan-ts or yarn add ckan-ts.

Using ckan-ts is very simple. For instance, the following checks whether or not a site is functional, and retrieves its first 100 datasets if it is:

import CKAN from "ckan-ts";
const parser = new CKAN("https://demo.ckan.org/api/3/");
const isAvailable = await parser.available();
if(isAvailable){
	const datasets = await parser.datasets({limit: 100});
}

For the most part, ckan-ts is intended to retrieve data from unauthenticated endpoints. However, you can also pass it headers to use throughout, i.e.

const parser = new CKAN("https://demo.ckan.org/api/3/", {
	requestOptions: {
		headers: {} // the desired http headers go here
	}
});

Documentation

Full documentation

Currently supported methods:

Search:

• .autocompleteDataset(query, limit): searches for a dataset, and returns its autocomplete results.
• .autocompleteFormat(query, limit): searches for a file format, and returns its autocomplete results.
• .autocompleteGroup(query, limit): searches for a group, and returns its autocomplete results.
• .autocompleteOrganization(query, limit): searches for an organization, and returns its autocomplete results.
• .autocompleteTag(query, limit): searches for a tag, and returns its autocomplete results.
• .autocompleteUser(query, limit): searches for a user, and returns its autocomplete results
• .searchDataset(query, options): searches for a given dataset with additional options, and returns its details.
• .searchResource(query, options): searches for a given resource with additional options, and returns its detaisl.

Lists:

• .datasets(settings?): returns the IDs of all datasets on the server.
• .detailedDatasets(settings?): returns information about all datasets on the server, including their included resources.
• .detailedGroups(settings?): returns information about all groups on the server.
• .detailedOrganizations(settings?): returns information about all organizations on the server.
• .detailedTags(settings?): returns information about all tags on the server.
• .detailedUsers(settings?): returns a list of users on the server with detailed information.
• .groups(settings?): returns the IDs of all groups on the server.
• .licenses(): returns all the licenses used across datasets.
• .organizations(settings?): returns the IDs of all organizations on the server.
• .tags(settings?): returns the name of all tags on the server.
• .users(settings?): returns a list of user IDs on the server.
• .vocabularies(): returns a list of vocabularies on the server.

Single items:

• .dataset(id): returns the metadata of a dataset with a given ID.
• .group(id, settings?): returns information pertaining to a group.
• .organization(id, settings?): returns information pertaining to an organization.
• .resource(id): returns the metadata of a resource with a given ID.
• .user(id): returns information about a given user.
• .vocabulary(id): returns information about a given vocabulary.

Miscellaneous:

• .action(action, data?, method?): carries out a generic action. Used in case it has not been implemented in the CKAN-TS yet.
• .available(): checks whether an API endpoint is currently available.

For more information about these methods, check the documentation.

Full documentation

License

ckan-ts is released under the MIT license. For more information, see the LICENSE file.