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Replacing ArcPy with ArcGIS API for Python?
From Overview of the ArcGIS API for Python:
The ArcGIS API for Python is implemented using the online and
on-premises web GIS platform provided by ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS
Enterprise ...
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Convert ArcGIS Spatially Enabled Dataframe to Geopandas GeoDataFrame
While there is no method in the ArcGIS Python API to convert from a SpatialDataFrame to a Geopandas GeoDataFrame, we can create a GeoDataFrame using another method.
I will assume you are accessing ...
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Programmatically determining version of ArcGIS API for Python?
Update based on OP's comment:
To get the version of the ArcGIS API for Python package, the following snippet should work without first establishing a connection:
import arcgis
arcgis.__version__
on ...
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Upload GeoJSON files to ArcGIS Online content
This Esri Community question contains the answer.
To summarize (since the final solution is spread out over multiple answers):
from arcgis.gis import GIS
data_path = r'C:\path\example.geojson'
gis = ...
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How to get description instead of coded value for a field with domain in hosted feature layer
Use the ArcGIS for Python API
from arcgis.gis import GIS
## or use GIS("agol_url", "username", "password")
agol = GIS("home")
item = agol.content.get("...
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Difference between ArcPy and ArcGIS API for Python?
arcpy is installed with ArcGIS software and requires a license to use. It is meant to assist in automating complex GIS tasks and extending GIS functionality not available out of the box. It is still ...
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Does ArcGIS API for Python use ArcPy internally?
Yes the ArcGIS API for Python can use the arcpy package if it is available in the current environment. arcpy is not required, but enables some additional functionality if available.
For example:
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Publish file geodatabase to ArcGIS Online using ArcGIS API for Python
Your code is close, but there are a few things you're doing wrong with the properties you're passing into each call. Try the below code (specifically updating what you're passing for the properties ...
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Installing ArcGIS Python API with ArcGIS Pro
For using ArcGIS API for Python, credentials have to be provided gis = GIS("http://www.arcgis.com", "username", "password").
from arcgis.gis import GIS
gis = GIS("http://www.arcgis.com", "***", "***"...
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How to update a hosted feature service on ArcGIS Online using the Python API for ArcGIS Pro?
I had this problem due to changing the source name in the map doc after publishing the service. Thus, the source name in the service was different from the source name in the map doc. I had to look at ...
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Updating hosted feature layers on AGOL using the ArcGIS Python API?
After a few weeks getting up to speed on the ArcGIS Python API, I have come up with work flow that works quite well. My original understanding of scripting using JSON dictionaries was a bit off as ...
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Using the arcpy Python library with hosted feature service layers from ArcGIS Online?
Using ArcGIS Pro 2.5 and making sure my feature service was editable with update privileges I was able to get the following line of code to work:
arcpy.management.AddGeometryAttributes("https://...
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Getting all users in ArcGIS Online organization?
Try using the UserManager with the Python API. The UserManager has an option for max_records which can be set to the number of users in your group
from arcgis.gis import GIS
import arcgis
gis = GIS(&...
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Area calculation in "Thomas Fire analysis"
It looks like 1200 and 450 are the dimension of the image in pixels, so the image is 1200 pixels wide by 450 pixels tall. The extent (first line of the cell) is in Web Mercator coordinates, so the ...
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Using ArcPy and ArcGIS API for Python together?
You can only run a Python script against one version of the Python debugger at a time (2.7, 3.4, etc).
If you have ArcMap, which runs against Python 2.x and the Python API (I'd assume you've ...
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Adding hosted Feature Layer from AGOL to my local ArcGIS Pro through Python
This worked for me:
aprx = arcpy.mpArcGISProject("CURRENT")
m = aprx.listMaps("Map")[0]
itemid = '2ec9f27bea254a428e4eb70e7650672d'
m.addDataFromPath("https://mycounty.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?...
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Reverse geocoding for multiple coordinates using ArcGIS API
Your error was probably similar to this one
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/test.py", line 24, in <module>
results = reverse_geocode(pt)
File "C:\...\...
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Installing ArcGIS Python API with ArcGIS Pro
The answer from @Taras is correct in how you can authenticate and startup the GIS object within the ArcGIS Python API -- there is, however, many ways to get started.
See the Working with different ...
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How can I use UpdateCursor in AGOL layers?
The error is saying the UpdateCursor does not like the input, it is NOT a "table or featureclass".
If you do a type on your layers, you'll see its an object specific to the ArcGIS Python API. And you'...
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Enable Popups for each layer in webmap using ArcGIS API for Python
I made a simple web map to test this out. For some reason none of my layers had the 'popupInfo' property mentioned in that geonet post ... but setting the 'disablePopup' property to false on all ...
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How to append a FeatureCollection to a hosted Feature Layer in ArcGIS Enterprise?
The documentation around this API is pretty sparse, so I disovered this through a lot of trial+error.
While the FeatureLayer page says that it expects to receive a "FeatureSet or List" as ...
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Access ArcGIS Python environment, installed via in Anaconda Navigator, from .bat script in normal cmd window?
If you do not have ArcGIS Pro currently installed on your machine
If you installed the arcgis library through conda but do not have ArcGIS Pro installed on yout machine, you need to call the activate....
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How to access layer using feature service URL/path
from arcgis.gis import GIS
from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer
agol = GIS("home")
url = "https://maps.portaladdress.com/arcgis/rest/services/Hosted/Feature_layer/FeatureServer/0&...
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Using ArcPy to retrieve maps posted on an ArcGIS portal?
With the ArcGIS Python API from the help
The output of this is a dictionary of all items (source_items_by_id).
Do with them as you wish:
from arcgis.gis import GIS
source = GIS("https://host.esri....
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Creating Tile Service in ArcGIS Online Python API
Yes, 1000.0000 is how you would specify a 1:1000 scale when creating a cached tile service. I use 1:1155581.108577 as my greatest scale and the parameter I pass is 1155581.108577.
Also, a tiled ...
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Displaying 3rd party FeatureSet geometries on jupyter notebook webmap using ArcGIS Python API
So with quite a bit more digging around in the sample notebooks provided by ESRI, I found the map.draw method. It can take both features and featuresets and draw their shapes onto a web map. The only ...
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Update field properties of a layer definition with ArcGis Python API
Hosted Feature Layers do not have a 'visible' property according to the REST API. Here are the properties you should expect to see at 10.6.1:
"fields" : [
{
"name": "<fieldName1>", "type": "&...
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How to search the folder's items in ArcGIS Online using the ArcGIS API for Python
what if you add this:
me = source.users.me
me.folders
for folder in me.folders:
print(folder['title'])
me.items(folder['title'])
itemsInFolders = me.items(folder=f[...
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Programmatically determining version of ArcGIS API for Python?
The following code is working perfectly for me.
import pkg_resources
dists = [d for d in pkg_resources.working_set]
for el in dists:
if "arcgis" in str(el):
arcVersion=str(el).split(" ")[...
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Copying feature service to local geodatabase using ArcPy and ArcGIS API for Python?
So I figured it out. The issue I was having is that I wasn't referencing down all the way to the REST API URL. Once you give it the feature service URL page to your feature service then it works fine. ...
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