Creating webmaps/apps with API for Python

maya_fromstein — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:22:41 GMT

Hello,

I am new to web programming (am experienced in R and familiar with python for data processing), so I apologize if this is basic or silly. I have gone in so many circles trying to figure this out on my own, so am hoping someone else wiser and more patient might be able to help!

The situation:

I am working with a software company who would like to integrate Esri web mapping into their offering for their clients. They don't plan on keeping a GIS person on staff long-term, so everything needs to be automated. Our desired end result would be that clients would select which fields they want mapped, and that would trigger a web map or app to be created and embedded in a website.
The possible combinations that we are thinking of now would be:
1. Fields from public data mapped and embedded into their private site,
2. and/or their private data mapped and embedded into their public facing website with pop-ups enabled
For both options, we would like layers to be able to be turned off/on (though it could be okay if not for the first option).

From what I can understand, API for python is a great resource for scraping data, but I can only find resources for how to do that from public data. There seems to be a module for API for python and experience builder, but I can't find many resources about it or figure out how it actually creates a new EB and feeds data to it. There are so many amazing public health interactive maps that I know the python API was used for - but I can't figure out how they have all the features they do (pop-ups, interactive legends, etc) without the use of the Javascript SDK.

So, my question is:

- Does anyone have any workflows or recommendations that would allow me to pull data, map in a pre-formatted template (with interactive layers), and embed in a website (private or public) using only API for Python? Or is this primarily a task for Javascript? Even just knowing if it's possible or not would be a huge help so I can stop going in circles.

Thank you all so much!

Re: Creating webmaps/apps with API for Python

Yuriko — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:08:23 GMT

The short answer is yes, this can all be done with the Python API. From the generalized workflow you describe:

Preconfigure the data and app resources to create generic templates: e.g. a web map and Experience Builder app.
Pull the data (e.g. Check a shared repository for new files or collect data using Survey123)
Clone the templates and update the project data according to your customer preferences
Republish as necessary (embed the iframe in a website)

HTH

Re: Creating webmaps/apps with API for Python

maya_fromstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:11:52 GMT

Thanks so much!

Would this work if we couldn't preconfigure the data layer? That's what we are hoping to automate through this process. From within the API I am having trouble with setting the points to cluster/aggregate or to customize the popups like I can from the GUI using arcade.

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