topic Re: Searching for items marked as authoritative in Python Questions

Searching for items marked as authoritative

RobGordon1 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:32:15 GMT

I am using the ArcGIS python API as I would like to count items in my agol that are marked as authoritative. I have been able to search by owner and type but I cannot get the contentStatus search term to work at all. I have read the documentation over and over and I just can't figure out what is wrong.

auth_items = gis.content.search(query='contentStatus:public_authoritative', max_items=100)

auth_no = len(auth_items)

print(auth_no)

Thanks!

Re: Searching for items marked as authoritative

CodyPatterson — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:49:57 GMT

Hey @RobGordon1

Could you try to search for this here:

auth_items = gis.content.search(query='contentStatus:authoritative', max_items=100)

I think it falls into a general category of authoritative, I've seen this here too:

Cody

Re: Searching for items marked as authoritative

RobGordon1 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 13:19:45 GMT

Thanks @CodyPatterson but... I have answered my own question....

So this page Search reference | ArcGIS REST APIs | ArcGIS Developers has the term contentStatus which does not work. But this non python page on advanced search has the term contentstatus . This does work! 😂😭

To add to the confusion I have to use contentstatus:public_authoritative (or org_authoritative) as authoritative alone is not a recognised value. This is as written on the API page next to contentStatus.

My status is now: 😑

Re: Searching for items marked as authoritative

CodyPatterson — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 13:55:19 GMT

Hey @RobGordon1

Definitely quite a lot of strangeness! I seem to be left as that status quite often when attempting to read through some of the documentation unfortunately.

Cody

Re: Searching for items marked as authoritative

Abe_808 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:29:34 GMT

A couple of years too late, but hopefully valuable to others.

Per Copilot:

"authoritative" is often used in some older examples.
"org_authoritative" is what many current orgs actually return for items marked authoritative within that organization.

from arcgis.gis import GIS import pyodbc # 1. Reuse your ArcGIS Pro login (no credentials in code) gis_portal = GIS("pro") # 2. Types we consider "webapps" for the techfolio types = [ "Web Mapping Application", "Dashboard", "Web Experience" ] all_webapps = [] for t in types: # Exclude items owned by esri_apps at the search stage # You can add more owners later if needed: 'AND -owner:esri' items = gis_portal.content.search( query='-owner:esri_apps', # exclude Esri's org apps item_type=t, max_items=1000 ) all_webapps.extend(items) print(f"Total webapps found (owner != esri_apps): {len(all_webapps)}") # 3. Filter to authoritative only using the Item.content_status property authoritative_apps = [] for item in all_webapps: status = (getattr(item, "content_status", "") or "").strip().lower() # Debug – optional: see status for your items print(item.title, "| owner:", item.owner, "| status:", repr(status)) if status == "org_authoritative": authoritative_apps.append(item) print(f"Authoritative webapps (excluding owner esri_apps): {len(authoritative_apps)}")