Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API

The Query API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for query.

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POST /Tabular/post.rest Run a Soil Data Access query #

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access Query API
  description: OpenAPI description of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Data Access (SDA) web services. SDA exposes a public REST POST endpoint that accepts SQL queries against the Soil Data Mart database and returns tabular data in XML, JSON or plain text. SDA additionally provides SOAP, WFS and WMS endpoints which are referenced here but not fully modeled in this specification. The REST endpoint is open and does not require authentication.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: API Evangelist
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
servers:
- url: https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov
  description: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access
tags:
- name: Query
paths:
  /Tabular/post.rest:
    post:
      summary: Run a Soil Data Access query
      description: Submit a SQL query against the Soil Data Mart database and receive results in the requested format. The request is form-encoded with a SQL query and a desired output format.
      operationId: runQuery
      tags:
      - Query
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - query
              properties:
                query:
                  type: string
                  description: SQL query to execute against the SDA database.
                format:
                  type: string
                  description: Output format for the response.
                  enum:
                  - xml
                  - json
                  - json+columnname
                  - json+columnname+metadata
                  - plain
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Query results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: object
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
        '400':
          description: Invalid request or SQL error.