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===Enter your API information=== | ===Enter your API information=== | ||
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* Open up the file <code>yelp_authentication.py</code> in | '''On Windows''' | ||
* Start your text editor (probably Notepad++ if you [[Windows text editor|installed it following our instructions last time]]). Navigate to the directory that contains Yelp API (probably something of the form <code>C:\Users\'''YOURUSERNAME'''\Desktop\yelp-api-cdsw</code>). | |||
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'''On Mac''' | |||
* Start your text editor (probably TextWrangler if you installed it following [[OSX text editor|our instructions]]). Navigate to the directory that contains the Yelp API project (probably something of the form <code>~/Desktop/yelp-api-cdsw</code>). | |||
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* Open up the file <code>yelp_authentication.py</code> in your text editor. | |||
* You will see four lines that include one variable "APIkey". | * You will see four lines that include one variable "APIkey". | ||
* Find the API key you created and wrote-down in "Create App" when you followed the [[Yelp authentication setup]]. Change the string that says | * Find the API key you created and wrote-down in "Create App" when you followed the [[Yelp authentication setup]]. Change the string that says CHANGE_ME into a string that includes the key you downloaded. Remember that since this is a string, we need to include quotations marks around them. | ||
Once you have done this, your example programs are set up to use the Yelp API! | Once you have done this, your example programs are set up to use the Yelp API! | ||
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== Potential exercises == | == Potential exercises == | ||
# Search in different places (your home town?) | # Search in a different places (your home town?) | ||
# Change your search in some way described in the API documentation (e.g., use a category filter) | # Change your search in some way described in the API documentation (e.g., use a category filter) | ||
# Instead of rating information, print out phone numbers... but what will | # Instead of rating information, print out phone numbers... but what we will do if we don't have phone numbers? | ||
# Open a file and save the answers to a file instead of just printing them out | # Open a file and save the answers to a file instead of just printing them out | ||
# How many shops can you get information on at a time? | # How many shops can you get information on at a time? what happens if you ask for more? how many do you get then? | ||
# What is the highest rated falafel place in Seattle? | # What is the highest rated falafel place in Seattle? | ||
# What is the highest rated business in Seattle? | # What is the highest rated business in Seattle? |