From CKAN

Using CKAN (via its API) from javascript including how to use the official CKAN javascript client library.

Contents 1 Pre-requisities 2 Getting Started 2.1 Try out the online demo 2.2 Get the code on your machine 3 Start Changing Things 3.1 Get your own file 3.2 Search for a dataset 4 Original Notes

Pre-requisities

3 Learn jquery in 18 minutes: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery

Getting Started

Try out the online demo

Visit: http://okfnlabs.org/ckanjs/app and play around

Get the code on your machine

• https://github.com/okfn/ckanjs
• Select download and save on disk
• Uncompress
• Open app/index.html - should look like the app you saw in previous step

Start Changing Things

Get your own file

• Copy and paste the index.html to myindex.html
• Look in myindex.html and replace contents of

 jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
 ...
 }

so it reads

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  cfg = {
    endpoint: 'http://ckan.net'
  }
  CKAN.Model.configure(cfg);
});

Search for a dataset

• Use this as an example package: http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/package/ckan

CKAN.Model.search('ckan', function(data) {
    $('.flash-banner-box').html(data);
    });

In your console (firebug or chrome) you should see an object.

Original Notes

http://ckan.okfnpad.org/tutorial-js