USG Web Service
Welcome to the USG Web Service. This service allows you to query USG for information that is returned in XML.
General Usage
Upon success, an XML document served with content-type: application/xml is returned. Upon failure, you get a text error message (without the application/xml content type).
The web service responds to different types of queries. These queries are selected via the 'request' parameter to the script. This parameter must be submitted via a GET request.
Possible Queries
- info - returns generic info about USG (currently just a list of periods in the financials system and the active period
- periodinfo - returns detailed info about a period. Period selection is determined by the 'period' GET variable, which must be a positive integer.
- organizationinfo - return detailed info about an organization. Organization selection is determined by the 'org' GET variable, which must be a positive integer
- eventinfo - return information about an event. Event selection is determined by the 'event' GET variable, which must be a positive integer
Example Query Strings