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World Bank Data API: Converting links to data?
Hello,
The World Bank website currently allows anyone to use it's worldwide data
In the above page, the World bank provides a basic call structure format. Following this protocol, I have generated links such as:
Surface area (sq. km) of Ethiopia: http://api.worldbank.org/c
Entering the above link into a url, returns the following data:
I'm not a programmer, but all I want to be able to do is grab the <wb:value> of 1104300 above and add it to a webpage, for multiple url links.
E.g my website would have 10 separate pages (one for each country) and on each of these pages would be the label: Surface area (sq. km): alongside the pulled World Bank data from the above url.
How would I approach this?
The World Bank website currently allows anyone to use it's worldwide data
In the above page, the World bank provides a basic call structure format. Following this protocol, I have generated links such as:
Surface area (sq. km) of Ethiopia: http://api.worldbank.org/c
Entering the above link into a url, returns the following data:
<wb:data xmlns:wb="http://www.worldbank.org" page="1" pages="1" per_page="50" total="1">
<wb:data>
<wb:indicator id="AG.SRF.TOTL.K2">Surface area (sq. km)</wb:indicator>
<wb:country id="ET">Ethiopia</wb:country>
<wb:date>2014</wb:date>
<wb:value>1104300</wb:value>
<wb:decimal>0</wb:decimal>
</wb:data>
</wb:data>
I'm not a programmer, but all I want to be able to do is grab the <wb:value> of 1104300 above and add it to a webpage, for multiple url links.
E.g my website would have 10 separate pages (one for each country) and on each of these pages would be the label: Surface area (sq. km): alongside the pulled World Bank data from the above url.
How would I approach this?
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Just checked - you can't do it client-side in Javascript, because the CORS headers are missing on the World Bank API :(
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Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to code and explain. Really appreciate it.
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You need some code and programming to extract the value from the XML. Which language do your programmers use, or which language is used on you web site?
There are 2 general approaches:
* Do it on the server. If your web site uses ruby code, then the logic of retrieving the links, parsing the XML and displaying it in context, will be written in ruby.
* Do it on the client. You will write Javascript code that runs in the browser to retrieve the links, parse the XML and display it in context.