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API script

Manuel Strehl edited this page Aug 2, 2013 · 4 revisions

Information about a Script

Template for this request:

http://codepoints.net/api/v1/script/{script*}{?callback}

where {script*} is one or more ISO 15924 script codes of interest, e.g., Latn for Latin or Arab for Arabic. More codes are separated by comma. The case is significant, that is, the first letter of every script must be upper-case, the three following must be lower-case. {?callback} is an optional callback function name to perform a JSON-P request.

Response

A response for the request to /api/v1/script/Latn,Arab,WrongScript looks like this:

    {
        "Latn": {
            "name": "Latin",
            "abstract": "<p>...</p>",
            "src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script"
        },
        "Arab": {
            "name": "Arabic",
            "abstract": "<p>...</p>",
            "src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script"
        },
        "WrongScript": null
    }

Possible Errors

  1. 404 Not Found: If the value for {script} is no comma-separated list of recognized ISO 15924 script codes.
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