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Call APIDump.config_api(query_size, num_of_queries) to initialize a StackAPI object. 2. Default Values: * query_size: 100 * num_of_queries: 10
Produces ~1000 results. Can be modified to produce more or less data. -
Call get_question or get_answers_for_questions to send a request to the API. Returns a dictionary containing the data.
- JSONReader contains useful functions for operating on the data.
Below is an example of interacting with the dictionary response.
print(data)
> {'backoff': 10, 'has_more': True, 'page': 1, 'quota_max': 300, 'quota_remaining': 300, 'total': 0, 'items'...
The entire query
print(data['quota_remaining'])
> 300
A portion of the header data.
print(data['items'][0])
> {'owner': {'reputation': 1, 'user_id': 14635777, 'user_type': 'registered', 'profile_image':...
The first question / answer / post
print(data['items'][1])
> {'owner': {'reputation': 65, 'user_id': 13592374, 'user_type': 'registered', 'profile_image':...
The second question / answer / post
print(data['items'][0]['user_id']
> 14635777
An attribute within a question / answer / post
- APIDump has an export_json_to_file(data, file_name) function, which allows you to store a hard copy of the JSON data.
- file_name is an optional parameter, which will have a time-stamp appended to it when saved.
- tokenization.py include the wrapper for nltk toolkit for preprocessing data. The most important method is process (title).