##infochimpy

Infochimpy is a Python client library for the Infochimps API based on tweepy. You might also want to look at python-infochimps.

Using the shell.

Infochimpy is intended to be used from within an application, an example is django-infochimps.

It may also be used through an interactive shell:

$ ./chimpshell.py   

Launching the shell creates an api instance that allows you to execute requests against the Infochimps API.

First you'll need to provide an api_key.

>> INFOCHIMPS_API_KEY = 'api_test-W1cipwpcdu9Cbd9pmm8D4Cjc469'  
>> api.trstrank('infochimps', INFOCHIMPS_API_KEY)   

{u'screen_name': u'infochimps', u'tq': u'94', u'trstrank': u'3.21', u'user_id': u'15748351'}

>> api.influence('infochimps', INFOCHIMPS_API_KEY)  

[result]

>> api.wordbag('infochimps', INFOCHIMPS_API_KEY)    

[result]

Available API commands

Twitter calls

• trstrank - gets the trstrank and trstquotient for a given Twitter user
• stronglinks - finds all of the Strong Links of a given Twitter user
• influence - finds the level of influence for a given Twitter use
• wordbag - finds the words most associated with a given Twitter use
• word_stats - gets basic statistics associated with a given word on Twitter
• conversations - create data frame of recent conversations between two Twitter user

Digital Element calls (see here)

• demographics - gather demographic data for a given IP address from the U.S. Census
• ip_geo - IP address geo-location
• census - gathers U.S. Census data for a given IP address

See the Infochimps API for more info.

Installation

If you haven't yet we suggest you use pip. Following is an example virtual environment for infochimpy.

Install pip:

$ sudo easy_install -U pip  

Install virtualenv:

$ sudo pip install -U virtualenv    

Create a virtualenv.

$ mkdir -p ~/Envs   
$ cd ~/Envs 
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages infochimps  

Git the library.

$ git clone [email protected]:gerlad/infochimpy.git    
$ cd infochimpy 

Activate the env.

$ source ~/Envs/bin/activate    

Install

(infochimps) python setup.py install

Alternatively you can use pip.

(infochimps) pip install infochimpy

Try it!

(infochimps) ./chimpshell.py