Code Examples: Python

Our code examples use the Trstrank API, the most popular API on Infochimps.

infochimps-trstrank.py

  #!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import urllib2

apikey = 'api_test-W1cipwpcdu9Cbd9pmm8D4Cjc469'
screen_name = 'infochimps'
url = ('http://api.infochimps.com/soc/net/tw/trstrank.json?' + 'apikey=' + apikey + '&screen_name=' + screen_name)

def main():
  handle = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  data = handle.read()
  obj = json.loads(data)                                        
  print '%s: %f' % (screen_name, obj['trstrank'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

Usage

Enter the following command into the command line to run.

  python infochimps-trstrank.py
# => infochimps: 3.69686