README.md

Restaurant Finding API

This application utilizes the Google Maps API to geocode the cordinates of an address/city/country and then passes that information along with a food genre to the Foursquare API in order to recommend corresponding restaurants back to the user in the form of JSON data

Getting Started

Download the project and to test locally simply run the view.py file which should initialize the application to your localhost:5000

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• Flask
• Sqlalchemy
• Foursquare Developer API Keys
• Google Maps API Key

Running the tests

User the tester.py file to run testing once you have the application running on a server. Read through the tester.py documentation to see what test scenarios are included in the coverage.

python tester.py

New Restaurant POST Example

This POST example will find a restaurant in Bueonos Aires Argentina that specializes in Sushi and POST the record to your application database.

print "Test 1: Creating new Restaurants......"
url = address + '/restaurants?location=Buenos+Aires+Argentina&mealType=Sushi'
h = httplib2.Http()
resp, result = h.request(url,'POST')
if resp['status'] != '200':
  raise Exception('Received an unsuccessful status code of %s' % resp['status'])
print json.loads(result)

Built With

• Python Flask - The web framework used
• Postman - Used to test API calls (GET, POST, UPDATE)
• Foursquare API - Setup a developer account to get the API keys for to use with this app
• Google Maps API - Setup an account and follow the Get a Key instructions

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details