Access Yellow API with HTTParty

yellowapi.rb

# snippet from HackMTL 2010

require 'httparty'

YELLOW_API_KEY = 'demo'

class String
  # Transliterates French accents
  def transliterate
    { /[àâ]/   => 'a',
      /[éèêë]/ => 'e',
      /[îï]/   => 'i',
      /ô/      => 'o',
      /[ùûü]/  => 'u',
    }.reduce(self) do |s,map|
      s.gsub map[0], map[1]
    end
  end
end

class Yellow
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'api.sandbox.yellowapi.com'

  def self.find_business(query)
    get '/FindBusiness/', {
      :query => {
        :pgLen  => '5',
        :fmt    => 'JSON',
        :apikey => YELLOW_API_KEY,
        :UID    => '127.0.0.1',
      }.merge(query),
    }
  end

  def self.get_business_details(query)
    get '/GetBusinessDetails/', {
      :query => {
        :fmt    => 'JSON',
        :apikey => YELLOW_API_KEY,
        :UID    => '127.0.0.1',
      }.merge(query),
    }
  end

  def self.find_business_details(query)
    find_business(query).parsed_response['listings'].map{|x|
      {
        'listingId' => x['id'],
        'bus-name'  => x['name'].transliterate.gsub(/\W/, '-').squeeze('-'),
        'city'      => x['address']['city'].transliterate,
        'prov'      => {
          'AB' => 'Alberta',
          'BC' => 'British-Columbia',
          'MB' => 'Manitoba',
          'NB' => 'New-Brunswick',
          'NL' => 'Newfoundland-and-Labrador',
          'NS' => 'Nova-Scotia',
          'NT' => 'Northwest-Territories',
          'NU' => 'Nunavut',
          'PE' => 'Prince-Edward-Island',
          'ON' => 'Ontario',
          'QC' => 'Quebec',
          'SK' => 'Saskatchewan',
          'YT' => 'Yukon',
        }[x['address']['prov']],
      }
    }.map{|x| Yellow.get_business_details(x) }
  end
end