SmartAPI

Intelligent APIs for a more connected web.

A BD2K/Network-of-BioThings project.

SmartAPI allows API publishers to annotate their services and input/output parameters in a structured and identifiable manner, based on a standard JSON-LD format for biomedical APIs and services. By indexing and visualizing these descriptions as Linked Data in a Elasticsearch back-end, researchers can seamlessly identify the services that consume or return desired parameters, and automatically compose services in workflows that yield new insights.

Presentation: http://bit.ly/smartAPIslides
Contact: api-interoperability@googlegroups.com

How to run a dev API server locally

1. Install Elasticsearch (version 7.x) at localhost:9200 (follow this instruction) or install with docker (follow this instruction)

2. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/SmartAPI/smartAPI.git
   

3. Install system packages (on Ubuntu, for example)

   sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev aws-cli
   

4. Install python dependencies after navigating to root smartAPI directory

   cd smartAPI
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Navigate to SmartAPI source files and create a config_key.py under src

   cd src
   touch config_key.py
   

6. Update config_key.py with

   COOKIE_SECRET = '<Any Random String>'
   GITHUB_CLIENT_ID = '<your Github application Client ID>'
   GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET = '<your Github application Client Secret>'
   SLACK_WEBHOOKS = [ 
       {
   	    "tag": '<string>', # (optional)
   	    "webhook": '<insert webhook URL>'
       }
   ] # (optional) 
   

   For Github incorporation, follow this instruction to create your Github Client ID and Secret.
   Enter any Application name, http://localhost:8000/ for Homepage URL and http://localhost:8000/oauth for Authorization callback URL.

   For SLACK_WEBHOOKS (optional), the list may not be included if one does not want Slack notifications pushed every time a new API is added to the smartAPI registry.

   Alternatively, if one wants slack notifications sent to more than one channel, one may list more than one dict in the SLACK_WEBHOOKS list.

   Follow this instruction to create Slack webhooks and obtain webhook URLs.

   If one would like a Slack notification pushed only if the newly registered API contains a specific tag, one should include the tag key, which should have the value of the specific tag (case sensitive).

   For example:

   "tags": 'translator' # will send every time an API is registered with a 'translator' tag 
   

7. Optionally import some API data from a saved dump file. Contact us for the dump file.
   And replace the name of the file in the command with the backup file name.

   import admin
   admin.restore("smartapi_oas3_backup_20200706.json")
   

8. Run dev server

   python index.py --debug
   

You should now able to access API dev server at http://localhost:8000

Note: On windows with python 3.7, if you cannot install pycurl automatically, try downloading a pre-compiled binary and install manually from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/