Using the COPTR data feed

Accessing the COPTR data

Question:

• I'd like to take the data in COPTR and create a funky 3D spinny view that helps people navigate the data and find what they are looking for. Can I do this, and can I host it somewhere else?

Answer:

• Yes, that would be excellent! The COPTR content is made available under a CC-BY-SA license but we ask that if possible you point your users back to this site if they have corrections or new tools to add.

Ways to access the COPTR data

We offer two main channels for accessing the data - the MediaWiki API, and XML dumps of the MediaWiki content.

The COPTR API

As COPTR is based on MediaWiki, you can access the COPTR content via the MediaWiki API. The Official MediaWiki API Documentation is a pretty good starting point, and the endpoint itself is _fairly_ self-documenting. However, to get you started, here are some examples.

If you want access to information on what has changed recently, just like the Special:RecentChanges RecentChanges page, but in a machine-readable form, you can construct a URL like this:

http://wiki-dev.openplanetsfoundation.org/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&format=json&rclimit=500&rctype=new&rcprop=title%7Cids%7Csizes%7Cflags%7Cuser%7Ctimestamp

The COPTR Database Backup Dumps

We also make daily XML dumps available, for backup and re-use purposes. You can find them in the backup-dumps folder,