This module provides integration with the http://open.worldbank.org datafeed API, including basic request handling and Views integration. Read the README.txt for a detailed description, and visit http://data.worldbank.org/developers for a detailed API specification. The World Bank API makes freely available through a simple HTTP GET interface much of the World Bank's current and past data on various important developmental, economic, and social indicators for hundreds of countries and regional groupings. Terms of use are located here.
The wbapi module provides a request handler that takes the supported arguments to the query and then formats them properly, sends on the GET request to the API server, and returns the result as a PHP array.
The included wbquery module builds Views 3 handlers atop this functionality, allowing basic views to be created through the standard interface, with the wbapi serving as the backend in lieu of the standard MySQL stack. This behavior was made possible by the pluggable query objects of Views 3, thus it doesn't work at all with Views 2; see that module and its READMEs and issue queues for more detail.