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Code for America Tagset

Dazza Greenwood edited this page Mar 23, 2015 · 1 revision

The Code for America API is available at: http://cfapi.readme.io/v1.0/docs/getting-started

The CfA API characterizes organizations and projects as follows:

Brigade Information

name

website

events_url - Point us to where ever you schedule your events. Only Meetup.com events are working right now.

rss - If you have a blog, point us to it. It's pretty smart and can find the feed on its own. To show off your Google Group discussions, use a link like https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/code-for-san-francisco/msgs/rss.xml?num=15

projects_list_url - Can either be a GitHub organization url like https://github.com/sfbrigade or a link to a list of project URLs, described below.

The Projects List

The projects list URL is usually a GitHub organization URL, like http://github.com/codeforamerica.

name - filled in by GitHub if left blank

description - filled in by GitHub if left blank

link_url - filled in by GitHub if left blank

code_url - Only GitHub links work for now. Others will be added as needed later.

type - Is this project an app, an open data policy, a webservice?

categories - Write your own separated by commas. "Education, digital literacy"

Organization Properties

all_events - Link to API information for all organization events.

all_projects - Link to API information for all organization projects.

all_stories - Link to API information for all organization stories.

api_url - Link to complete API information for this organization.

city - Home city of the organization.

current_events - Selection of current event dictionaries.

current_projects - The three most recently updated projects of this organization.

current_stories - Selection of current story dictionaries.

events_url - URL source for event list.

last_updated - Last time updated in unix time

latitude - Geographic latitude, in degrees.

longitude - Geographic longitude, in degrees.

name - Offical name.

past_events - All past events. In order from recent till ancient.

projects_list_url - URL source for projects list.

rss - URL source for stories list.

started_on - Optional start data for the organization.

type - The type of organization. Brigade, Code for All, Government, etc ...

upcoming_events - All future events.

website - Informational website.

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