Requesting metadata with Socrata API

Question

Each dataset published with Socrata has its "About" page. For example:

• https://data.cityofchicago.org/Buildings/Building-Permits/ydr8-5enu/about

But docs at dev.socrata.com don't mention how I can request this metadata with their API.

I tried requesting about.json, but no avail.

Socrata's Open Data Network features docs for each dataset. In this case,

• https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cityofchicago.org/9pkb-4fbf

But its "about" page contains only data scheme:

• http://www.opendatanetwork.com/dataset/data.cityofchicago.org/9pkb-4fbf

So, is it possible to get the original "About" page via API?

Answer 1

Have you tried out the Socrata Labs "Catalog" API?

http://labs.socrata.com/docs/search.html

That includes most of the metadata as well as the view counts for each dataset. You can filter it down to just Chicago data using the domain= filter:

http://api.us.socrata.com/api/catalog/v1?domain=data.cityofchicago.org