Wikidata:Property proposal/NPR station ID

NPR station ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: NPR station ID (P8561) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a National Public Radio member station
Represents	NPR (Q671510)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	radio station (Q14350)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	WVXU (Q7957077) → 704 (webpage, json)
Example 2	WNPN (Q7956618) → 333 (webpage, json)
Example 3	WNYC-FM (Q24204255) → 554 (webpage, json)
Example 4	WNYC (Q24207146) → 553 (webpage, json)
Source	https://www.npr.org/stations (JSON endpoint: https://www.npr.org/proxy/stationfinder/v3/stations)
Planned use	Pulling a station's metadata; linking to its podcasts
Number of IDs in source	1600+
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.npr.org/podcasts/organizations/$1 (webpage), https://www.npr.org/proxy/stationfinder/v3/stations/$1 (json)
See also	NPR podcast ID (P5840), en:Category:NPR member stations

Motivation

There's lots of useful metadata about all these stations in those JSON links. These station IDs are used consistently throughout NPR's systems (according to their docs), but they are most accessible to the public through the stationfinder API (the backend for npr.org/stations) and the podcasts directory. There is public documentation for the stationfinder API (N.B. To use the API without authentication, replace station.api.npr.org with www.npr.org/proxy/stationfinder). –IagoQnsi (talk) 05:18, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support I would have thought they used the call letters, but I guess one station can have several of those? Anyway, good to have this. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:17, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Hannes Röst (talk) 14:07, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 14:23, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

@IagoQnsi, ArthurPSmith, Hannes Röst, YULdigitalpreservation:  Done NPR station ID (P8561) Pamputt (talk) 06:20, 25 August 2020 (UTC)