Order option for records returned by petitions.json?

Currently I can search for bees in the list of rejected petitions via the following:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?q=bees&page=1&state=rejected

Or list debated petitions via:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?page=1&state=debated

I wondered if there is any additional parameter which can be passed to the search URL to allow results to be sorted by e.g. creation date, either ascending or descending?

I have searched first before raising this question but couldn't see anything, so maybe it's not an option?

Thanks

Jim

[pixeltrix]

Hi Jim,

Sorry for the delayed reply - there isn't currently an option to specify an arbitrary sort order as we try to optimise our database queries so that indexes are used all the time. However we might consider adding a specific limited set of custom sort orders to our JSON api requests to allow researchers to get easier access to data. Do you have a particular use case?

Hi Andrew, Thanks for your reply. When I found out petition data could be accessed via JSON I set up a simple page to look pull data from the API (https://jimpix.co.uk/petitions/). The page isn't used by anyone except me, I was just tinkering and enjoyed being able to work with the data returned by the API. When returning data e.g. open petitions, via https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?page=1&state=open, it's not clear what the default sort order is, and I thought it'd be useful to be able to sort by created_at, or signature_count (ascending and descending for both). Same on the search - if it was possible to sort search results returned by e.g. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?q=tree&page=1&state=open that would be very useful. If that counts as a use case, then I hope that provides some more background / info. Thanks again Jim

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