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Copy of the code out of my Untappd Data Visualisation repo so that I can embed it in Wordpress...
from pymongo import MongoClient
import requests
# Your Untappd details...
untappd_user = ''
untappd_client_id = ''
untappd_client_secret = ''
# Connect to the local MongoDB instance...
client = MongoClient()
db = client[untappd_user]
# Does the user have any checkins already...?
if 'checkins' in db.collection_names():
print 'Dropping previously slurped checkins...'
db.drop_collection('checkins')
# Create a new collection so we can slurp checkins into it...
checkins = db.create_collection('checkins')
# We don't have any checkin info at the moment, so don't set the checkin max_id
max_id = None
# Connect to Untappd and pull down some checkins...
while True:
# These are the parameters we send every time...
parameters = {'client_id': untappd_client_id, 'client_secret': untappd_client_secret, 'limit': 50}
# Each time we go round the loop apply the max_id...
if max_id != None:
parameters['max_id'] = max_id
# Get some checkins...
r = requests.get('http://api.untappd.com/v4/user/checkins/' + untappd_user, params=parameters)
json = r.json()
if json['meta']['code'] == 200:
# Update the max_id...
max_id = json['response']['pagination']['max_id']
# Load the checkins into mongo...
checkins.insert(json['response']['checkins']['items'])
# If we didn't get 50 checkins then we're done, so break out...
count = json['response']['checkins']['count']
print "Inserting %i checkins into mongo..." % count
if count < 50:
break
else:
print json['meta']['error_detail']
break
print "%s now has %i Untappd checkins in MongoDB..." % (untappd_user, checkins.count())
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