WEBAPI: Stata module to fetch an authenticated JSON web API into Stata as a dataset

Eric Booth

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: A small, dependency-free generalisation of the "web API from Stata" pattern: a request to a URL, an authentication step (bearer token, API key, or HTTP basic), and a JSON reply parsed back into variables and observations. The HTTP + auth + JSON-to-table work is done by a Python standard-library helper, so no pip packages or virtualenv are required -- only a working python3 on the PATH. Syntax: webapi get using "URL", records("data") [options]; and webapi post using "URL", body("json") [options].

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 16
Keywords: web api; json; http; rest; oauth; import (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-07-30
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install webapi". The module is made available under terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/webapi_helper.py Python helper script (text/plain)

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