{"id":30733,"date":"2023-08-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/?p=30733"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:26:02","slug":"building-infographic-with-cloudinary-and-the-national-park-service-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/building-infographic-with-cloudinary-and-the-national-park-service-api","title":{"rendered":"Building Infographics With Cloudinary and the National Park Service API"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this fascinating article about how Cloudinary was used for a World of Warcraft (WOW) campaign, (How Cloudinary made World of Warcraft\u2019s first-ever marketing campaign go viral<\/a>). My wife is a huge WOW player, and I remember when this campaign went live. She shared the infographics that were created for her character. At the time, I thought it was impressive, but I honestly had no idea Cloudinary was used for it. I thought it would be cool to see if I could build something similar.<\/p>\n

While not quite as exciting as a massive, online multiplayer role-playing game, I thought I\u2019d create an example that used data from the National Park Service<\/a> (NPS).<\/p>\n

The NPS API<\/h2>\n

The NPS API is free with an API key<\/a> and has a healthy rate limit of 1,000 calls per hour (some endpoints differ on their rates). Their documentation<\/a> provides an incredible range of supported information.<\/p>\n

For my demo, I\u2019ll make use of the \/parks<\/code> endpoint, which as you can guess returns information about parks. The endpoint supports filtering parks by park code (a special identifier for parks) or state and supports pagination. You can do basic searches as well.<\/p>\n

The information returned for a park is rather detailed, including:<\/p>\n