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simple poetry mashups with the foursquare venues api
import urllib
import sys
import time
import json
import random
import re
# to get your own client id/client secret, go here:
# https://foursquare.com/oauth/
foursq_client_id = sys.argv[1]
foursq_client_secret = sys.argv[2]
latlong = sys.argv[3] # e.g. 40.68,-73.94
# n is the number of search terms to squeeze off the end of the line
n = 3
for line in sys.stdin:
line = line.strip()
# if the line is blank, don't bother looking it up
if len(line) == 0:
print ""
continue
# split line into tokens
line_tokens = line.split(' ')
# search foursquare tips for the last n tokens
query = ' '.join(line_tokens[-n:])
# we're going to match against this token later to complete the line
last_token = re.sub(r'\W+$', '', line_tokens[-1])
# these are the parameters to the search call. they go on the url.
params = {
'll': latlong,
'query': query,
'client_id': foursq_client_id,
'client_secret': foursq_client_secret}
# make the request. urllib.urlencode changes a dictionary into a string
# in the format key1=val1&key2=val2 (also translating special chars as
# needed)
response = urllib.urlopen('https://api.foursquare.com/v2/tips/search?' + \
urllib.urlencode(params))
# if the response returned 200 (HTTP for 'it worked!')...
if response.getcode() == 200:
# call the response's read() method, which returns the response from
# the remote server as a string. pass that to json.loads() ('loads'
# stands for '_load_ from _s_tring') to decode the data
data = json.loads(response.read())
# things we might append to the current line
possibles = list()
# now work with the data. we know the data has the format expected here
# because we (a) checked the documentation, (b) tried the request out with
# curl first, or, preferably, (c) both!
for tip in data['response']['tips']:
tip_tokens = tip['text'].split(' ')
# find every tip that has the last word in the line from the source
# text. take everything from that word to the end of the line.
if last_token in tip_tokens:
idx = tip_tokens.index(last_token)
possibles.append(tip_tokens[idx:])
if len(possibles) > 0:
from_source = ' '.join(line_tokens[:-1])
from_foursquare = ' '.join(random.choice(possibles))
print from_source + " " + from_foursquare
else:
print ' '.join(line_tokens)
else:
print "error connecting to foursquare! " + response.getcode()
# this tells python not to try to buffer the output, so we see each line
# as it arrives
sys.stdout.flush()
time.sleep(0.5) # wait a while before next request, just to be nice
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