The ancestors API - any successful calls?

1/7/2025 at 4:14 AM

I'm trying to use the ancestors API, but I'm getting an error.

Code:

Geni.api('/profile-3768075/ancestors', {generations: 2}, data => {

           console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));

Result:

{

 "error": {

   "type": "ApiException",

   "message": "Permission denied"

}

Any idea what's going on here?

Joelis Jonas Šereika

1/7/2025 at 4:35 AM

I think the /ancestors call requires special permission.

You can get the parents of the profile and get all of the ancestors recursively, but you have to add a 10 second delay for each call. You can see the example I made here: https://github.com/Joelis57/geni-caf/blob/main/app.js#L71C18-L71C38

Harald Tveit Alvestrand C

1/7/2025 at 5:43 AM

Thank you so much! This example has so many things that are on my list of "I have to add code for this"!

(I'm getting enough feel for the API now that I'm considering ditching Geni.api() calls and instead using the fetch API - it seems more transparent to do it that way, but I'm sure there will be gotchas along the way....)

Frits van Drie

1/20/2025 at 3:21 AM

In the dveloper docs there is no resource 'ancestors'. According the documentation you should use immediate ffamily. Am ii missing something?

Private User

1/21/2025 at 11:16 AM

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

To test and view results, use https://www.geni.com/platform/developer/api_explorer

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