How to export source information from Geni

You can try using the API for getting info on documents: https://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=document&version=1

For exporting the GEDCOM export does add some source information so that is probably easier.
For info that is missing from the GEDCOM (info not exported) that you added yourself you might want to look at https://www.geni.com/account_settings/download_activity. But it will take a lot of effort to combine the info.

A GEDCOM is limited in the number of profiles you can export, but you can do multiple exports (from different profiles). There are the ancestor an descendant reports that may be useful to find profiles for an GEDCOM export. But please remember that you can only export a GEDCOM from a profile you created yourself. You can export from multiple profiles but you would need a program to join those GEDCOM files (there will probably be duplicates)

You can probably get the information you want, but it will take a lot of effort.

https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/sections/206535847-GEDCOM

HI Kenneth,

I have used the Export a few times and no, the sources don't come with it.

Judi

The GEDCOM looks a bit different depending on the options you choose and the format of the export has changed a few times in the last years, so I would advice to make a small stand-alone tree and use that to test.

Am I correct when I think that will NOT get the information about related documents when I receive a Profile structure

https://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=profile&version=1

So I will need to call the Documents interface explicitly

https://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=profile%2Fdocuments&version=1

And this should include the record-matches and smart-matches connected to each profile?

Since I can actually get info about all other profile information (including photos) from the Profile structure, I was thinking that I should be able to get a list of document-xrefs as well from the Profile interface?

If I need to call the documents interface explicitly I will do so. I just want to make sure first.

May be you could try testing within the browser to see what information is returned or post your questions about the API in a project discussion. I'm no programmer, so I never used the the API in a program.

Ok, thanks. I have added a question to the API group as well.

I did make a test on one of my profiles to check what the documents API returned, and it returned zero documents, despite this profile having both record matches and smart matches.

Olof Bergelsson

This was disappointing!

I think you can only get documents that way, those sources aren't documents
You might try is you can get any useful info using the revisions (see https://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help/api?path=revision&version=1)
But it would be nice if sources where added to the API.

Please remember that most users cannot see sources you add using a MH data subscription.
It may help if you can add that information from a free source as documents to Geni.

I was not expecting the documents themselves, but I should be able to se a reference to it, especially since I do have access to those documents.

If they are able to distinguish between different user access levels on the web interface, they can do the same on the API level.