Cemetery Web Services

Cemetery provides read-only, RESTful style web services in XML and JSON. The idea is to provide all the information in output formats other than HTML. For example, adding format=XML to certain URLs will give you an XML version of the data.

Interment Data

Cemetery allows you to search for interments and receive the data as XML or JSON. The default is the HTML view, but adding a format parameter will give you data in the requested format. (assuming that format is one we support)

An easy way to see it work, is to do a search as you normally would; then, add a 'format' parameter to the URL. Right now we support format=xml and format=json. We'll add more output formats as time goes on.

The search parameters we currently support are:

• lastname
• firstname
• cemetery_id
• section_id

Cemetery and Section require sending the ID number for the cemetery or section you're looking for. An easy way to discover the ID numbers is to view source on the search form, or look at the query strings of other searches.

You can also get this information by looking at the cemetery information.

Cemetery Information

We also provide this data in XML and JSON format at the bottom of each page, when you do a search query on the burials page.