APIDatasetMetaData is broken

[slecrenski]

Here is just one example.

bea_tbl = beaapi.get_data(beakey, datasetname='APIDatasetMetaData', Dataset='NIPA')

site-packages/beaapi/response_to_dict.py", line 126, in response_to_dict
    if('error' in (map(lambda x: x.lower(), bea_response['BEAAPI']['Results'].keys()))):

[bquistorff-bea]

Thanks for this note! The information returned from APIDatasetMetaData is currently quite different than the other (statistical) datasets. We currently don't support it through get_data (though we haven't noted that). Our main functions for dealing with this data is update_metadata and search_metadata. In the short-run we'll make a note on get_data about the lack of support, and in the long-run see what would be best.

If you'd like to parse the data yourself you can do the following:

import json
bea_response_string = beaapi.api_request({'UserID': beakey, 'method': 'GetData','datasetname': 'APIDatasetMetaData','dataset': 'NIPA','ResultFormat': 'json'}, as_string=True)
metaList = json.loads(bea_response_string)