School
This API is used to provide access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, lists, and general school info.
GET
Content News Items
Returns a collection of Content News Items Requires at least one of the following roles in the Education Management System:
- Parent
- Faculty
- Student
Request URL
Request parameters
| Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| categories | string |
Request headers
| Header | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bb-Api-Subscription-Key | Property is required | string | Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile. |
| Authorization | Property is required | string | OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code. |
Response 200 OK
Success
{
"count": 2,
"value": [
{
"id": 1,
"headline": "News Story",
"author": "Gus I. Dunno",
"short_description": "Brief",
"long_description": "Loquacity",
"featured": true,
"media_item": [
{
"type": "Photo",
"title": "Mighty Ducks",
"caption": "Photo",
"url": "www.notarealurl.com"
},
{
"type": "Photo",
"title": "Climbing K2",
"caption": "Another",
"url": "www.notarealurl.com"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Featured News",
"content_type": "Push Page"
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Important News",
"content_type": "Academics"
}
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"headline": "Another Story",
"author": "Wile E. Coyote",
"short_description": "Brief",
"long_description": "Oratory",
"featured": false,
"media_item": [
{
"type": "Photo",
"title": "Bruins at play",
"caption": "PhotoSet2",
"url": "www.notarealurl.com"
},
{
"type": "Photo",
"title": "Everest at night",
"caption": "AnotherPhoto",
"url": "www.notarealurl.com"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"id": 4,
"name": "Parents News",
"content_type": "Dorms"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Featured News",
"content_type": "Push Page"
}
]
}
]
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The number of items in the collection",
"format": "int32",
"readOnly": true
},
"next_link": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For paginated responses, the URI for the next page of results",
"nullable": true
},
"value": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The ID of the news item",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"headline": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The news item title",
"nullable": true
},
"author": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The author os the news item",
"nullable": true
},
"short_description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The short description field for the new item",
"nullable": true
},
"long_description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The long description field for the new item",
"nullable": true
},
"featured": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Returns true if the news item is featured",
"nullable": true
},
"media_item": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "",
"nullable": true
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "",
"nullable": true
},
"caption": {
"type": "string",
"description": "",
"nullable": true
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Media Model"
},
"description": "",
"nullable": true
},
"categories": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The Id of the news category",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the news category",
"nullable": true
},
"content_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The type of content type the news comes from",
"nullable": true
},
"primary": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Set to true if the new category is the primary source of the news item",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "News Category Model"
},
"description": "The list of categories the news item is published to",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "NewsItem Model"
},
"description": "The set of items included in the response. This may be a subset of the items in the collection",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "A Collection"
}Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items?categories={string}"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request parameters
queryString["categories"] = "{string}";
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items");
builder.setParameter("categories", "{string}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"categories": "{string}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"categories={string}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
[_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'categories' => '{string}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'categories': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/content/news/items?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'categories': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/content/news/items?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/content/news/items')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'categories' => '{string}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
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