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[2015-08-03] Document Listing API
[2015-08-03] Document Listing API
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Written by James Paden
Updated over a week ago

Today we are happy to announce support for API Access to Document Logs, which has long been available on the internal dashboard of DocRaptor. Our Document Listing API only worked for documents that created successfully, which was not ideal!

There are a lot of reasons you might want this, including but not limited to:

  • success/failure rates of your document generation

  • tags distribution against success rates

  • easier DocRaptor white-labeling for agencies

  • usage report for specific weeks/months/years

What would it look like to get a log of all document creation attempts for the first 7 days of 2015?

$ curl https://docraptor.com/doc_logs.xml?user_credentials=API_KEY&search\[start\]=2015-01-01+00:00:00+UTC&search\[end\]=2015-01-07+23:59:59+UTC

Sample XML output (you can also get it as JSON):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc-logs type="array">
<doc-log>
<id>21</id>
<name>8v8weck7.pdf</name>
<document-type>pdf</document-type>
<document-url>http://example.com</document-url>
<test type="boolean">true</test>
<tag nil="true"/>
<success type="boolean">true</success>
<javascript type="boolean">true</javascript>
<async type="boolean">false</async>
<strict>none</strict>
<ip-address>127.0.0.1</ip-address>
<created-at type="datetime">2015-01-06T16:53:06Z</created-at>
<generation-time type="float">4.0</generation-time>
<input-size type="integer">1294</input-size>
<output-size type="integer">24227</output-size>
<prince-options>
<baseurl>http://example.com</baseurl>
</prince-options>
<validation-errors></validation-errors>
<generation-log>dat|total_page_count|1sta|Loading document...
msg|inf||loading HTML5 input: -
sta|Running scripts...
msg|inf||loading script: /Users/joel/projects/docraptor/lib/princess.js
sta|Applying style sheets...
msg|inf||loading style sheet: /Users/joel/projects/docraptor/lib/prince_test_mode.css
sta|Preparing document...
sta|Converting document...
prg|0
msg|inf||used font: Open Sans, Bold
msg|inf||used font: Open Sans, Regular
msg|inf||used font: Times New Roman, Regular
prg|100
dat|total_page_count|1
fin|success
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: ---- begin
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: Loading document...
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: loading HTML5 input: -
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: Running scripts...
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: loading script: /Users/joel/projects/docraptor/lib/princess.js
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: Applying style sheets...
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: loading style sheet: /Users/joel/projects/docraptor/lib/prince_test_mode.css
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: Preparing document...
Tue Jan 06 12:53:09 2015: Converting document...
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: used font: Open Sans, Bold
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: used font: Open Sans, Regular
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: used font: Times New Roman, Regular
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: stats: total_page_count: 1
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: finished: success
Tue Jan 06 12:53:10 2015: ---- end
</generation-log>
</doc-log>
<doc-log>
<id>20</id>
<name>5jbvvph0.pdf</name>
<document-type>pdf</document-type>
<document-url>http://example.com</document-url>
<test type="boolean">false</test>
<tag nil="true"/>
<success type="boolean">false</success>
<javascript type="boolean">true</javascript>
<async type="boolean">false</async>
<strict>none</strict>
<ip-address>127.0.0.1</ip-address>
<created-at type="datetime">2015-01-05T16:52:39Z</created-at>
<generation-time type="float">1.0</generation-time>
<input-size type="integer">0</input-size>
<output-size type="integer">0</output-size>
<prince-options>
</prince-options>
<validation-errors>Over document limit. Please upgrade your account.</validation-errors>
<generation-log nil="true"/>
</doc-log>
</doc-logs>

The old Docs API for listing documents did not include success, since it had to be successfully generated to be returned by that API. It also did not include input/output size statistics, generation time, or the generation log, so there’s quite a bit more information available.

We hope this helps you get more from DocRaptor! Contact us if you have any questions or comments about the new API.

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