[arin-tech-discuss] ARIN API Question

[Anna Claiborne]

Just as another note, even results paging (opposed to returning everything at once) would be extremely helpful.  That would limit the data returned in one request, but still provide it all (if the concern is too much data being returned in one call).

-Anna

On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Anna Claiborne wrote:

> Thanks for quick reply David.  We really need something that will return all records, not just limited to 256.  Is it possible to get this limited removed, or at least raised?
> 
> Brian, that is an interesting work around....I'll have to see if we could automate something like that to work.  However, the best answer would be to just to get all records returned with the children call.
> 
> -Anna
> 
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Brian Rak wrote:
> 
>> It's a pain.  There's an API call that does it, but only if you've got under 255 reassignments.
>> 
>> What we do is:
>> 
>> 1) Request a reassignment report (/rest/report/reassignment/)
>> 2) Wait for the report to complete
>> 3) Download the report (/rest/ticket/)
>> 4) Convert the XLS document returned to a CSV (xls2csv works okay)
>> 5) Parse the CSV for all the reassignments within the subnet range
>> 
>> It seems awful, but it's been the only reliable way of doing it that I've found.
>> 
>> 
>> Re: /children.  Note the message at the top: 'This list contains more than 256 records. Additional records are not shown.'.  This restriction makes it pretty much useless.
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/12/2012 4:52 PM, Anna Claiborne wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to retrieve, via the API, a list of all sub net blocks under parent block?  Or even a list of net handles to then look up the net range or cidr?
>>> 
>>> For example: 69.7.160.0/19
>>> http://whois.arin.net/rest/cidr/69.7.160.0/19/
>>> 
>>> has several swipped /28s.  How do I find them from the parent block information?
>>> 
>>> With RIPE, you can do a reverse lookup on a block and get a list inet num objects back.  Is the equivalent to this with ARIN?  Thanks in advance for any help.
>>> 
>>> -Anna
>>> 
>>> 
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