The concept library API allows programmatic interaction with code lists so that they can be directly used in queries, statistical scripts, etc.
The API tab allows for the following uses:
- The User can export the code list of a concept or a working set.
- The User can search for concepts/working sets and get details data:
- For either the live(latest) version or a specific historical version.
In order to do this the User will need to specify the id/version number as follows:
2. System Admin can use API to create/update concepts/working sets through submitting JSON objects. In the future, if required this could be extended to all users.
3. Other API endpoints are used internally by the application e.g. to search for concepts/tags use /api/concepts, /api/tags.
Exporting Code List via CSV
Please note, if exporting via .csv data may be lost when viewing via Excel. This is a fault with how Excel formats .csv and not with the data itself. We would advise either importing to Excel via the import wizard or, where possible, to use a specialised .csv tool or text editor to view the data.