wordexamples.py

#RWET Assignment 3: Wordnik API Poems
#Rebecca Lieberman
#ITP Spring 2015

import sys
import urllib
import json


word = sys.argv[1]
api_key = "8f1c6a85da698016e700d0eeb57066aeff88d029d09498010"
limit_num = random.randrange(2, 25)

url = "http://api.wordnik.com:80/v4/word.json/" + word + "/examples?includeDuplicates=false&useCanonical=false&skip=0&limit=" + str(limit_num) + "&api_key=" + api_key

response_str = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
response_dict = json.loads(response_str)


# #TEST JUST TO SEE WHAT RESOPONSE WE GET
# for item in response_dict['examples']:		#print the examples
# 	each_example = item['text']		#convert each example into a list so we can slice it
# 	print each_example
# 

for item in response_dict['examples']:		#print the examples
	each_example = item['text'].split()		#convert each example into a list so we can slice it
	if word in each_example:
		loc = each_example.index(word)			#find where the word occurs in the list
		print " ".join(each_example[loc:loc+10])


# THIS DIDN'T WORK WHEN I TRIED TO CONSTRUCT THE URL USING URL ENCODE -- DO I EVEN NEED TO?
#	query = {
# 	"includeDuplicates": "false",
# 	"useCanonical": "false",
# 	"limit": "20",
# 	"api_key": "8f1c6a85da698016e700d0eeb57066aeff88d029d09498010"
# }
#