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Many REST API examples fail on the documentation page
If one goes to the REST API documentation for this tool
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/docs/v2/reference-docs/rest-api/
It contains a comprehensive list of links on how to use the REST API.
Try the first example:
/genome/accession/{accession}/annotation_report
Click TRY, or use the CURL example
Produces the error
{
"error": "Not Found",
"code": 404,
"message": "Your request is invalid. (For more help, see the NCBI Datasets Documentation at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/docs/)"
}
then I noticed the query is empty, I fill in with a GCF_000001635.27
I get another error:
{
"error": "Bad Request",
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid argument provided: 'invalid path: \"sort\" is not a message'. (For more help, see the NCBI Datasets Documentation at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/docs/)"
}
I randomly tried a number of other example, some failed, some produced no output, a few succeed.