I am interested into getting financial open data from any available Socrata dataset. I have managed to get a small java application working for any specific dataset, but i was wondering if there is a way to get all available datasets progammatically.
I wouldn't like to ask the user to enter a url/dataset Id, it would be nice if the program could provide a list for all the datasets given a category.
I know http://www.opendatanetwork.com, has a big list of such datasets, but i didnt find a way to get this information programmatically.
The API that powers the Open Data Network is the Socrata Global Search API, and you can find the docs at http://labs.socrata.com/docs/search.html.