Configure External Entities 3.x For Drupal.org Rest API

How to configure External Entities for use with the Drupal.org REST API.

Implementation

1. Install External Entities 3.x dev.
   Dev release has the latest fixes.
2. Create a new Drupal.org modules External Entity type.

Storage client settings

Storage client: REST
Endpoint URL: https://www.drupal.org/api-d7/node
The main endpoint provides full entities in a list: true
Endpoint URL for a single entity: https://www.drupal.org/api-d7/node/{id}
Endpoint URL to get the total number of available entities or pages: 41213 (Manually entered from last page number)
Type of total number of items returned: Number of pages
Endpoint data encoding format: JSON

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JSONPath leading to the list of entities: $.list.*

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Default number of items: 50
Page parameter: page
Page parameter type: Page number

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Additional HTTP headers: Accept: application/json

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List parameters: type=project_module
Add list parameters to: query string (default)
 

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File mapping settings

Field mapper: Simple

Use Field name for exact matches to json keys.

Use Simple mapping for nested values.

Use Constant to provide the full_html format for formatted text values.

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