CrucnBase api demo usage

get_company_facebook_info_test.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# simplistic demo
# refer to the api doc of the website for more api interfaces and usage
import urllib

developer_key = "something_you_should_change_here"
REQUEST_URL = "http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/facebook.js?api_key=%s" % developer_key

print "CHECK REQUEST URL:", REQUEST_URL

readed = urllib.urlopen(REQUEST_URL)

def get_n_lines(n):
    "get the first n lines of readed content as a list by urllib"
    lines = []  # to store the first n lines
    c = 1  # counter for increasement
    for line in readed:
        if c <= n:
            lines.append(line)
            c += 1
        else:
            break
    return lines

lines = get_n_lines(14)

print "".join(lines)