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A Modest Proposal for an API to query planning data

July 14, 2014 By Mike Cummins 8 Comments

We have recently been looking at Planning Application data and how it could best be accessed by programmers to create their own displays or to create plug-ins for Word Press etc.

As such, this is a sort of Request For Comments to find out if we are thinking on the right lines and whether we have missed any vital functionality.

An API implemented as a standard JSON web service using HTTP GET and POST requests.

Last Application:

eg /api/api.php?lastapplication

Returns :

{
   "Date": "2014-03-31"
}

Authorities held
eg /api/authorities

Returns :

[
{
   "Authority": "Birmingham",
   "Count": 2567
},
...
]

By Application number

eg /api/api.php?Birmingham&application=2014/01632/PAContinue Reading

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