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authorFrancis Irving <francis@mysociety.org>2010-10-09 04:24:02 +0100
committerFrancis Irving <francis@mysociety.org>2010-10-09 04:24:02 +0100
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Link to Atom JSON equivalents in HTTP header. Document.
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<h2> 3. JSON structured data </h2>
-<p>Request, public authority and user pages have JSON feeds, which let you download
-information about objects in a structured form. Find them by:
+<p>Quite a few pages have JSON versions, which let you download information about
+objects in a structured form. Find them by:
<ul>
<li>Adding <tt>.json</tt> to the end of the URL. </li>
<li>Look for the <tt>&lt;link rel="alternate" type="application/json"&gt;</tt> tag in the head of the HTML. </li>
</ul>
</p>
+<p>Requests, users and authorities all have JSON versions containing basic
+information about them. Every Atom feed has a JSON equivalent, containing
+information about the list of events in the feed.
+</p>
+
<hr>
<h2> 4. Spreadsheet of all authorities </h2>