Category: Web Service

Sharing a sample code that can be used to consume UNData API

http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=API

The below code fetches the population data for country India.

Sample Code

var xmlHttp;
// creatng the xmlHttp object
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
// Calling the web service using post and true means asynchronous call
xmlHttp.open("POST", "http://data.un.org/WS/NSIEstatV20Service.asmx", false);

// Setting the request header to let the web service find the soap request we would be sending
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended/GetCompactData");

var soapRequest = "<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1"-->xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>"+
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>"+
"<soap:Body>"+
"<GetCompactData xmlns='http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended'>"+
"<Query>"+
"<message:QueryMessage xsi:schemaLocation='http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/SDMXMessage.xsd http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/%20SDMXMessage.xsd' xmlns:generic='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/generic' xmlns:message='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/message' xmlns:query='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/query' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>"+
"<message:Header>"+
"<message:ID>onh14833545733929527</message:ID>"+
"<message:Test>false</message:Test>"+
"<message:Prepared>2017-01-01</message:Prepared>"+
"<message:Sender id='online-help' />"+
"</message:Header>"+
"<message:Query>"+
"<query:DataWhere>"+
"<query:And>"+
"<query:Dimension id='INDICATOR'>SP_POP_TOTL</query:Dimension>"+
"<query:Dimension id='AGE'>_T</query:Dimension>"+
"<query:Dimension id='SEX'>_T</query:Dimension>"+
"<query:Dimension id='LOCATION'>_T</query:Dimension>" +
"<query:Dimension id='REF_AREA'>DEU</query:Dimension>" +
"<query:Dimension id='SCENARIO'>H</query:Dimension>"+
"<query:Time>"+
"<query:StartTime>2014-01-02</query:StartTime>"+
"<query:EndTime>2017-01-02</query:EndTime>"+
"</query:Time>"+
"<query:Dataflow>DF_UNDATA_WPP</query:Dataflow>"+
"</query:And>"+
"</query:DataWhere>"+
"</message:Query>"+
"</message:QueryMessage>"+
"</Query>"+
"</GetCompactData>"+
"</soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>";

xmlHttp.send(soapRequest);
var xmlDoc = jQuery.parseXML(xmlHttp.responseText);
var popValue = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('ns1:Obs')['0'].attributes['OBS_VALUE'].nodeValue;
alert("Total Population " + popValue);

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body><GetCompactDataResponse
xmlns="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended">
<GetCompactDataResult>
<CompactData
xmlns:ns1="urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.DataStructure
=UNSD:DSD_WPP_UNDATA(1.0):ObsLevelDim:TIME_PERIOD"
xmlns="http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/message"
xmlns:common="http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/common"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"><Header>
<ID>DF_UNDATA_WPP</ID><Test>false</Test><Prepared>2017-01-06T08:25:46
</Prepared>
<Sender id="1B0">
<Name xml:lang="en">United Nations Statistics Division</Name>
<Contact><Email>statistics@un.org</Email></Contact></Sender>
<KeyFamilyRef>DSD_WPP_UNDATA</KeyFamilyRef><KeyFamilyAgency>UNSD
</KeyFamilyAgency><DataSetAgency>UNSD</DataSetAgency>
<DataSetID>DF_UNDATA_WPP_1B0_2017-01-06T082546</DataSetID>
<DataSetAction>Information</DataSetAction>
<Extracted>2017-01-06T08:25:46</Extracted>
<Source xml:lang="en">
United Nations Population Division World Population Prospects</Source>
</Header>
<ns1:DataSet DATASET_NAME="World Population Prospects"
DATASET_SOURCE="United Nations Population Division"
DATASET_DESC="The United Nations World Population Prospects contains estimates and projections for every country in the world, including estimates and projections of demographic indicators such as birth rates, deaths rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy." UNDATA_LASTUPDATE="20 Aug 2013" UNDATA_NEXTUPDATE="2015 release" METADATA="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm"><ns1:Series AGE="_T" FREQ="A" INDICATOR="SP_POP_TOTL" LOCATION="_T" SEX="_T" REF_AREA="DEU" SCENARIO="H"><ns1:Obs TIME_PERIOD="2015" OBS_VALUE="83178.615" UNIT="NUMBER" UNIT_MULT="3" TIME_SPAN="2015" /></ns1:Series></ns1:DataSet></CompactData></GetCompactDataResult></GetCompactDataResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Hope it helps.