API Usage for Numeric Questions

[karinegabsschon]

Hey,

I would like to use the Metaculus API to fetch and process the numeric forecasts. Now I played around with the Metaculus Bot Template in Colab to adapt it for my use-case but

1. It seems that changing the forecasting_type to numeric or continuous is not showing any effects.
2. If i crawl for numeric questions based on their question ID to see how I can process them further, it seems that the community prediction is not passed via the API. (It is also not available when manually downloading the forecasting question) Only the CDF values are shared. Would be awesome to retrieve this information as a benchmark.

Happy for any help or further guidelines on how to use the API!

[SylvainChevalier]

The community prediction first quartile, median and third quartile are indeed returned by the API, in the fields interval_lower_bounds, centers, interval_upper_bounds. Note that the returned values are rescaled to [0,1]. You can find more information about how scaling works in the API documentation (in the "How to generate a continuous cdf?" section).