[bioontology-support] Help on a small API script

[Hu, Zhiliang [AN S]]

Hi Jennifer,

Thank you for your patience with me. The information are very helpful.
Now I get it to work!

Have a good weekend!

Zhiliang

From: Jennifer Leigh Vendetti <vendetti at stanford.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 06:26 PM
To: Zhiliang Hu <zhu at iastate.edu>
Cc: "support at bioontology.org" <support at bioontology.org>
Subject: Re: [bioontology-support] Help on a small API script

Hello Zhiliang,

If you want check the version of the latest submission of a particular ontology, you can use the /latest_submission endpoint, e.g., for VT the REST API call would be the following:

http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT/latest_submission

In the JSON results, you can check for the “version” key/value pair:



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You may also be interested in the /submissions endpoint, which would allow you to retrieve all of the submissions for a particular ontology, e.g.:

http://data.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT/submissions

You can iterate over the collection, looking at the “version” key/value pair for each ontology submission object.

We have some example code for interacting with our REST API in GitHub:

https://github.com/ncbo/ncbo_rest_sample_code

Kind regards,
Jennifer




On Sep 30, 2021, at 3:34 PM, Hu, Zhiliang [AN S] <zhu at iastate.edu<mailto:zhu at iastate.edu>> wrote:

Greetings,

I have a routine to watch the latest versions of a few ontologies (VT/LPT/CMO/etc).
I tried the following:

use LWP::Simple;
use JSON qw( decode_json );
my $bioprtAPIky = "720f4412-5a96-48cc-a39f-961570c9a94b";
my $url = "http://data.bioontology.org";
  $url .= "/property_search?";
  $url .= "apikey=$bioprtAPIky";
  $url .= "&ontology=VT";
  $url .= "&q=version";
my $get = get("$url");

and get lost at what to extract for.

I was on your doc http://data.bioontology.org/documentation but didn't get much. Could you help with this script? (to get just the latest version number).

Thanks in advance,

Zhiliang

PS:
I used to "get" "https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT/?p=summary" and apparently the scripting "get" is being blocked on your site lately.


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