The outdooractive Data API responses are UTF-8 XML documents by default or UTF-8 JSON documents alternatively. Most of the outdooractive Data API interfaces support JSONP.
Future releases of the outdooractive Data API will put a focus on UTF-8 JSON encoding. (Maybe XML support will be dropped at some point of time.)
The following http header has to be sent to get responses as JSON representation:
Accept: application/json
A request to the outdooractive Data API is only valid if an outdooractive API key and an outdooractive project key are used. The following test keys are used in all examples and the reference. You are welcome to use these keys for temporary testing purposes.
Every outdooractive API project has its own category tree which is a two level hierarchy of project categories which are organized in category groups.
The complete category tree of an outdooractive API project:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/category/tree?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
The project category tree reduced to categories of the core content types tour or poi:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/category/tree/tour?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/category/tree/poi?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
The project category tree filtered to categories which currently have published content objects:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/category/tree/tour/pruned?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/category/tree/poi/pruned?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
The outdooractive platform stores information about the relations of continents, countries, provinces, districts and communes as a global hierarchical tree. Tourism areas, moutain areas and protected areas are part of this region tree.
A sub tree is chosen for each outdooractive API project and is available through the data api:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/region/tree?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
Region types:
Get the tours and POIs of a project as id lists:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/tours/?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/pois/?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
Get the full information of two content objects:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/oois/1373438,1397449?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=de
The same request reduced to a minimal set of attributes:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/oois/1373438,1397449?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&display=minimal&lang=de
The same request reduced to a set of attributes which allows to render a content object snippet or list entry:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/oois/1373438,1397449?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&display=list&lang=de
Look up the external id of a content object:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/lookup/1373438?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
Full text search (POIs and tours) and get an id list:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/search/?q=church&key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&project=api-dev-oa
Filter tours of a project and get an id list:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/filter/tour?len_e=10000&key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
Available filter parameters:
The FilterClusterLayer allows you to filter all tours of your project by the following parameters.
| Parameter | Example | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| dif_d, dif_m, dif_e | dif_d : false | true | show tours which are ‘difficult’ (dif_d=true), ‘intermediate’ (dif_m=true), ‘easy’ (dif_e=true) |
| asc_s, asc_e | asc_s : 500 | empty string | filter tours by ascending meters: asc_s <= tour.asc <= asc_e |
| tim_s, tim_e | tim_e : 60 | empty string | filter tours by duration in minutes: tim_s <= tour.time <= tim_e |
| len_s, len_e | len_e : 5000 | empty string | filter tours by length in meters: len_s <= tour.length <= len_e |
| q | q : ‘Church’ | empty string | full text search |
| area | area : ‘1027459’ | empty string | filter by region |
| category | category : ‘1566479’ | empty string | filter by category |
| sortedBy | sortedBy : ‘title’ | empty string | sort output by ‘title’ or ‘distance’. Use ‘title desc’ to sort in descending order. |
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/nearby/tour?location=10.26706,47.51336&sortby=distance&radius=5000&key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
Available parameters:
The NearBy API is called with the parameters location and radius. Further parameters are:
| Parameter | Example | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | 10.26706,47.51336 | - | longitude/latitude pair of the near by search center |
| radius | 5000 | - | search radius (unit: meters) |
| sortby | distance | name | result sorted by distance, name or ascent |
| limit | 10 | - | limit the result list |
| callback | onNearByResponse | - | js callback in case of jsonp (add /jsonp to path) |
All Filter API parameters may be used as well.
Images are content objects with a title and description. The outdooractive platform uses content relations to link images of content objects like tours and POIs. The images related to a content object are referenced by an outdooractive id in all object representations.
The default Url to an image object’s image file:
https://img.oastatic.com/img2/6128163/default/variant.jpgAll images are available at several sizes (width/height):
https://img.oastatic.com/img2/6128163/80x80r/variant.jpg
https://img.oastatic.com/img2/6128163/420x237r/variant.jpg
https://img.oastatic.com/img2/6128163/1600x904r/variant.jpg
GPX:
https://www.outdooractive.com/download.tour.gpx?i=1550935&project=api-dev-oa&key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
KML:
https://www.outdooractive.com/kml_generate?i=1550935&project=api-dev-oa&key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi
The request language of all text APIs are set by parameters:
Example Request:
https://www.outdooractive.com/api/project/api-dev-oa/oois/1550935?key=yourtest-outdoora-ctiveapi&lang=it&fallback=false