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

[JaredPilbeam2]

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'

[jcarlson]

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.

[JaredPilbeam2]

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.

[jcarlson]

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
...

[JaredPilbeam2]

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.

[jcarlson]

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.

[JaredPilbeam2]

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).

[jcarlson · Accepted solution]

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.

[JaredPilbeam2]

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

[jcarlson]

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!