Brands are being migrated to be served from the new Public Concepts API and as such this API will eventually be deprecated. From July 2018 requests to this service will be redirected via the concepts api then transformed to match the existing contract and returned.
Provides a public API for Brands data
_NB You will need to tag a commit in order to build
Information about the service can be found in the (public-brands-api runbook)[https://sites.google.com/a/ft.com/ft-technology-service-transition/home/run-book-library/public-brands-api]
- You will need to load some data, see Brands RW API for help with that
go get -u github.com/Financial-Times/public-brands-apicd $GOPATH/src/github.com/Financial-Times/public-brands-apigo test ./...go install$GOPATH/bin/public-brands-api --neo-url={neo4jUrl} --port={port} --log-level={DEBUG|INFO|WARN|ERROR}Both arguments are optional. --neo-url defaults to http://localhost:7474/db/data, which is the out of box url for a local neo4j instance. --port defaults to 8080.curl http://localhost:8080/brands/2d3e16e0-61cb-4322-8aff-3b01c59f4daa | json_pp
- The API only supports HTTP GET requests and only takes one parameter, uuid:
http://api.ft.com/brands/{uuid} - The an example result structure is shown below, note that when there is no parent or child brand then we omit the those attribute:
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/{uuid}",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/{uuid}",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/core/Thing",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/concept/Concept",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/classification/Classification",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"directType": "http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand",
"prefLabel": "Brand Name",
"description": "A description of the brand, in plain text",
"descriptionXML": "<body><p>A description of the brand, in <i>bodyXML</i></p></body>",
"strapline": "A subsidiary heading, caption or advertising slogan",
"_imageUrl": "http://images.ft.com/tempImageWhilstThisIsResolved.jpg",
"childBrands": [],
"parentBrands"" []
}
- Brands can have parents, as illustrated below when considering Lex Live:
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/e363dfb8-f6d9-4f2c-beba-5162b334272b",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/e363dfb8-f6d9-4f2c-beba-5162b334272b",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/core/Thing",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/concept/Concept",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/classification/Classification",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"directType": "http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand",
"prefLabel": "Lex Live",
"description": "",
"descriptionXML": "",
"strapline": "",
"_imageUrl": "",
"parentBrands": [
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/2d3e16e0-61cb-4322-8aff-3b01c59f4daa",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/2d3e16e0-61cb-4322-8aff-3b01c59f4daa",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"prefLabel": "Lex"
}
],
"childBrands": []
}
- As well a parents, brands can have children as shown below:
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/2d3e16e0-61cb-4322-8aff-3b01c59f4daa",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/2d3e16e0-61cb-4322-8aff-3b01c59f4daa",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/core/Thing",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/concept/Concept",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/classification/Classification",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"directType": "http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand",
"prefLabel": "Lex",
"description": "",
"descriptionXML": "",
"strapline": "",
"_imageUrl": "",
"parentBrands": [
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/dbb0bdae-1f0c-11e4-b0cb-b2227cce2b54",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/dbb0bdae-1f0c-11e4-b0cb-b2227cce2b54",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/core/Thing",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/concept/Concept",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/classification/Classification",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"directType": "http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand",
"prefLabel": "Financial Times"
}
],
"childBrands": [
{
"id": "http://api.ft.com/things/e363dfb8-f6d9-4f2c-beba-5162b334272b",
"apiUrl": "http://api.ft.com/brands/e363dfb8-f6d9-4f2c-beba-5162b334272b",
"types": [
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/core/Thing",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/concept/Concept",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/classification/Classification",
"http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand"
],
"directType": "http://www.ft.com/ontology/product/Brand",
"prefLabel": "Lex Live"
}
]
}
- Based on the following google doc.
- See the api Swagger file for endpoints definitions.