require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib/yelp4r' # Read the Yelp API Documentation # http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation # Initialize a new Yelp Client client = Yelp4r::Client.new('your_ywsid_key') # Initialize a new Phone Search object phone_search = Yelp4r::PhoneSearch.new(client) # Phone search only does one thing, looks up a business by a phone number results = phone_search.search_by_phone_number('1234567890') # A response object is returned # The following response methods are available to all Yelp searches in the 3 search classes # PhoneSearch, ReveiwSearch, NeighborhoodSearch if results.success? puts results.data # Pure data of the repsonse puts results.body # Entire body of the response else puts results.reponse_code # Yelp repsonse code puts results.error_message # The text of the error message end # Initialize a Neighborhood Search Object neigh_search = Yelp4r::NeighborhoodSearch.new(client) # Search by a geocode point # Pass a Lat and Long respectively results = neigh_search.search_by_geocode(37.788022, -122.399797) # Search by a location (with optional country code) results = neigh_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA') # or results = neigh_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA', 'US') # Again the response methods above apply here as well # Initialize a Review Search Object review_search = Yelp4r::ReviewSearch.net(client) # Each search method for the review_search object takes the following optional parameters # :category => this is a Yelp category term (see the categories list below) # :term => this is a search term # :num_biz_requested => a number 1 through 20 (default is 10) # Search by a bouding box # Pass a top left lat/long and bottom right lat/long results = review_search.search_by_bounding_box(38, -122.6, 37.788022, -122.399797) results = review_search.search_by_bounding_box(38, -122.6, 37.788022, -122.399797, :term => "bars", :num_biz_requested => 15) # Search by geocode and radius # This method accepts and optional param of # :radius => max of 25 results = review_search.search_by_geocode_and_radius(37.788022, -122.399797) results = review_search.search_by_geocode_and_radius(37.788022, -122.399797, :radius => .5) results = review_search.search_by_geocode_and_radius(37.788022, -122.399797, :category => "bars", :radius => 1) # Search by location # This method accepts and optional params of: # :radius => max of 25 # :cc => country code results = review_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA') results = review_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA', :num_biz_requested => 10) results = review_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA', :radius => 5) results = review_search.search_by_location('Boston, MA', :term => "doctors") # Again the response methods above apply here as well # Yelp4r provides a couple of html parsed lists powered by Hpricot # This first is the list of neighborhoods # see the page here: http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/neighborhood_list # Create a new Neighborhoods object neighborhoods = Yelp4r::Neighborhoods.new # Get the list # This list is designed to keep the parent and its children in a hash with the parent being the key and the children in an array # which is generated by a recursive function # see the spec_helper method yelp4r_test_neighs_list for an example. puts neighborhoods.list # There is also a method to return a list of