A nodejs
API to the Zenodo API.
Built with Fastify and SQLite. Requires nodejs v. >= 16.x. To install:
~$ git clone git@github.com:punkish/zenodeo3.git
~$ cd zenodeo3
~/zenodeo3$ npm i
~/zenodeo3$ node server
If using pm2
in production, start like so
~/zenodeo3$ NODE_ENV=production pm2 start server.js --name=z3
Zenodeo is a node-based, REST API with its own data source built from treatment XMLs downloaded periodically from TreatmentBank. It allows querying treatment data granularly against almost all its uniquely tagged information that has been parsed and extracted out of XMLs and stored in a relational database. Zenodeo is particularly fast at full-text search and spatial search against an R*Tree index of lat-lng
values of material citations.
Zenodeo is queried via http
, either via the browser or, preferably, via any REST client. All the queries are GET
requests and all the responses are JSON. The base URI is test.zenodeo.org/v3
. The term after the base query specifies the resource that is being retrieved. So, to retrieve 'treatments', go to test.zenodeo.org/v3/treatments
or to retrieve 'materialCitations', go to test.zenodeo.org/v3/materialcitations
Since the queries are constructed using URLSearchParams
, only &
-separated key=value
pairs are allowed. The easiest query is to conduct a free-text search by specifying the q
param which will find all the records with the specified value anywhere in the text. For example, to find all the records with the word 'agosti' anywhere in the text, use the following query
?q=agosti
To provide more querying flexibility, Zenodeo implements are very lightweight Zenodeo Query Language (ZQL) with an easy English-like syntax. For example,
?publicationDate=since(2010-12-27)
?checkinTime=between(2010-12-27 and 2011-12-27)
do exactly what it looks like. Similarly,
?geolocation=within(radius:10,units:'kilometers',lat:40.21,lng:-120.33)
finds records within the specified radius from the provided lat-lng
pair.
Zenodeo3 follows the OpenAPI specs. Browse to the root to view the docs with details on ZQL and syntax examples along with a simple interface to try out queries.