Glottolog-Datasette

Serve a version of the Glottolog database via Datasette as a REST-ful API.

Examples

• Request: >>> languoid?label__contains=greek
• Response: (truncated for most pertinent information)

{
  "rows": [
    {
      "id": "anci1242",
      "label": "Ancient Greek",
      "type": "language",
      "status": "extinct",
      "parent": "indo1319",
      "family": "east2798",
      "lat": 39.8155,
      "long": 21.9129,
      "iso639P3code": "grc",
      "child_family_count": 0,
      "child_language_count": 0,
      "child_dialect_count": 6
    }, ...
  ],
  "table_rows_count": 23495,
  "filtered_table_rows_count": 23,
  "next": null,
  "next_url": null,
  "query_ms": 15.398740768432617,
  "source": "Glottolog",
  "source_url": "http://glottolog.org/meta/downloads/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

The full Datasette API docs explain a bit more about the options: http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Most parameters however are just based on the column names in the tables.

Note that thanks to the versioned API-system, future version of the data model are not necessarily compatible.

Collaboration

Pull requests are welcome.