goodtables-js

An API wrapper for a goodtables.io, an open source web service for validating tabular data sources (DEMO).

Features

• validate function to validate tabular data and output a goodtables report
• goodtables.io/api as a cloud backend

Contents

• Getting started
  • Installation
• Documentation
• API Reference
  • ApiClient
  • validate()
• Contributing
• Changelog

Getting started

Installation

The package use semantic versioning. It means that major versions could include breaking changes. It's highly recommended to specify goodtables version range in your package.json file e.g. goodtables: ^1.0 which will be added by default by npm install --save.

NPM

$ npm install goodtables

CDN

<script src="//unpkg.com/goodtables/dist/goodtables.min.js"></script>

Documentation

Let's start with a simple example:

const source = '<SOURCE_URL>'
const options = {
  // any goodtables options e.g.
  skipChecks=['missing-header'],
}
const report = await goodtables.validate(source, options)

This package is only wrapper around main goodltabes-py via goodtables.io API. Read full documentation to learn the package in details. Please note that JavaScript version of the library uses camelCase naming for classes, arguments etc instead of snake_case in the Python counterpart.

Data quality spec is shipped with the library.

const spec = goodtables.spec

Under the hood validate function uses ApiClient class. It could be useful for the end-user if there is a need to split API job creation and report getting into two steps.

new ApiClient({apiUrl, apiToken, apiSourceId})
async apiClient.addReport(source, options)
async apiClient.getReport(apiJobId)

API Reference

ApiClient

APIClient

validate()

Validate

See goodtables-py

Contributing

The project follows the Open Knowledge International coding standards. There are common commands to work with the project:

$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ npm run test

Changelog

Here described only breaking and the most important changes. The full changelog could be found in nicely formatted commit history.

v1.1

• Added default credentials

v1.0

• First stable realese