topic Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:13:17 GMT

I'm looking at content_status property for 'authoritative' in the docs. I'm not sure how to use that as a parameter in a search. What I want to do is list all my 'authoritative' hosted feature layers and then download them.

I didn't think it would work, but I have tried:

from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS("", "", "") my_content = gis.content.search(query="owner:" + gis.users.me.username, item_type="Feature Layer", content_status='authoritative', max_items=15) my_content #error TypeError: search() got an unexpected keyword argument 'content_status'

cont = my_content.content_status='authoritative' cont #error AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'content_status'

items= gis.content.search(content_status='authoritative') #error TypeError: search() got an unexpected keyword argument 'content_status'

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

jcarlson — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:23:39 GMT

As you've noticed, content_status doesn't seem to be a searchable property in the standard content search.

Oddly, content status needs to be searched in the query string, and has to be done a couple different ways.

auth_items = gis.content.search('contentstatus:org_authoritative OR contentstatus:public_authoritative') for item in auth_items: # your download process

Edit: the page you ought to reference is this: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/search-reference.htm

But it looks like contentstatus isn't in the list. I've sent some feedback to get it added.

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:45:26 GMT

Thanks @jcarlson .

If it's is a query string why doesn't this result in anything?

auth_items = gis.content.search( 'contentstatus:org_authoritative AND contentstatus:public_authoritative') for i in auth_items: print(i)

I ran it with OR but for some reason I only got back a handful of Items from our orginization. And only one of these was mine when I know I have at least eight 'authoritative' layers alone.

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

jcarlson — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:57:50 GMT

Strange! "AND" won't work; as far as I can tell, an item can't have both statuses.

Try adding the parameter "max_items=-1"?

auth_items = gis.content.search('contentstatus:org_authoritative OR contentstatus:public_authoritative', max_items=-1) for i in auth_items: print(f'{auth_items.index(i):4} | {i.title}')

Returns

   0 | 03-35
   1 | Millbrook South Forest Preserve Trails 11x17
   2 | 02-07
   3 | Drainage Districts Oveview
   4 | County Board District and Legislative and Congressional Districts
   5 | 03-29
...

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:18:18 GMT

It's hard to say what that query string parameter is doing? The results I'm seeing range from dashboards to webmaps, not just feature layers. And only 1/4 I randomly looked at was 'authoritative'.

That print statement printed out 2045 orginization-wide items, which is basically every item in our AGOL account.

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

jcarlson — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:30:45 GMT

Well, anything can have "Authoritative" status. Add "item_type='Feature Layer'" to further filter that.

Odd that it would cast such a wide net. When I test it, it brings back the expected items.

Try watching your network traffic when you click the "Authoritative" filter in the content page and see what it's doing.

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:16:04 GMT

That's true, I didn't realize that. Regardless, I'm showing only 32 items with 'authoritative' status when viewing Content under My Organization.

That's interesting. I'm getting a Cross-Origin Request Blocked when clicking the 'Authoritative' filter.

16:11:50.370 Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://mobileanalytics.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2014-06-05/events. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

jcarlson — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 02:17:41 GMT

auth_items = [i for i in gis.content.search('', item_type='Feature Layer', max_items=-1) if i.content_status == 'org_authoritative' or i.content_status == 'public_authoritative'] auth_items

A bit less efficient, but you could just iterate over all Feature Layer items and look directly at the property in question.

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:04:11 GMT

Thanks @jcarlson,

Not sure why your first bit of code wasn't giving me the same results as the second bit of code. But after adding this parameter to the second bit I was able to get the desired results.

query="owner:" + gis.users.me.username

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

jcarlson — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:07:40 GMT

I was signed as our org's admin user when I tested it. Perhaps that had some impact?

In any case, I'm glad you got it to return the results you want!

Re: How to use the content_status property 'authoritative' in an item search

JaredPilbeam2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:17:03 GMT

Perhaps? I was signed in as me. I haven't tried it as an admin. I'll keep that in mind!