The Skills Matcher APIs provide developers with the ability to create their own user interface for something like our Skills Matcher. The Get Skills Web API provides 40 skills statements and ratings statements. Users can then rate their level for each skill. This Web API works in conjunction with the Submit Skills API to provide occupation matches based on those skill level ratings. You can see these APIs at work in the ;Skills Matcher tool on CareerOneStop.
About this data
Both Skills Matcher Web APIs are based on data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) taxonomy, created by the Department of Labor for cross-agency use by federal, state and local government entities. Data information can be found here.
Resource URL
https://api.careeronestop.org/v1/skillsmatcher/{userId}
Example Code
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace CareerOneStopAPISample
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
CreateRequest().Wait();
}
private static async Task CreateRequest()
{
var uri = new UriBuilder(Uri.UriSchemeHttps, "api.careeronestop.org")
{
Path = "/v1/skillsmatcher/{userId}"
};
using (var http = new HttpClient())
{
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", "API Token");
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
var response = await http.GetAsync(uri.Uri).ConfigureAwait(false);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
}
}
}import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class CareerOneStopAPISample {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
URI uri = new URIBuilder()
.setScheme("https")
.setHost("api.careeronestop.org")
.setPath("/v1/skillsmatcher/{userId}")
.build();
CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
HttpGet httpGet = null;
try {
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);
httpGet.setHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
httpGet.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer API Token");
response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
} finally {
if(httpGet != null) httpGet.releaseConnection();
if(response != null) response.close();
}
}
}
Request Parameters
Refer to the following table for a list of the required and optional request parameters. All parameter names and values are case sensitive. Important: You must provide all required parameters. Submitting an empty request does not return all possible results; an empty request returns an error.
Response Structure
{
"Skills": [
{
"ElementId": "string",
"ElementName": "string",
"DataPoint20": 3.0,
"DataPoint35": 4.0,
"DataPoint50": 5.0,
"DataPoint65": 6.0,
"DataPoint80": 7.0,
"AnchorFirst": "string",
"AnchorSecond": "string",
"AnchorThrid": "string",
"AnchorFourth": "string",
"AnchorLast": "string",
"Question": "string",
"EasyReadDescription": "string"
}
]
}<SkillProfilerViewModel xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/XPAND.CareerOneStop.WebApi.ViewModels">
<Skills>
<Skill>
<AnchorFirst>string</AnchorFirst>
<AnchorFourth>string</AnchorFourth>
<AnchorLast>string</AnchorLast>
<AnchorSecond>string</AnchorSecond>
<AnchorThrid>string</AnchorThrid>
<DataPoint20>3</DataPoint20>
<DataPoint35>4</DataPoint35>
<DataPoint50>5</DataPoint50>
<DataPoint65>6</DataPoint65>
<DataPoint80>7</DataPoint80>
<EasyReadDescription>string</EasyReadDescription>
<ElementId>string</ElementId>
<ElementName>string</ElementName>
<Question>string</Question>
</Skill>
</Skills>
</SkillProfilerViewModel>
Response Parameters
Errors
| Error/Status Code |
Description |
200
|
OK / Success. The request went through successfully and there is a response body.
|
400
|
Bad Request (Request was invalid or missing parameters)
|
401
|
Unauthorized. This error occurs specifically when authentication is required and has failed or has not yet been provided correctly. (ex: Invalid API Token)
|
404
|
This error will be shown in two scenarios 1) Not found - (An error occurred) and 2) Not found - (No data available)
|
500
|
Internal Server Error. This error will occur when there is something critically wrong in the API call. |