foursquare_crawler

This crawler is designed to collect information from Foursquare website(www.foursquare.com ).
Using Foursquare API.

System Requirements

Ubuntu (Version: 16.04). This project haven’t been tested on other platform.

Pre-request Packages

This crawler is written in Python 3 Other pre-request packages include: Httplib2(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httplib2 ) Guess language 0.2(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/guess-language )

• You can run install.sh to install them.

Output Format

This crawler returns a json format profile.
example format:

{   
       "user info": { 
       "exist": (_1 for yes 0 for no_),
       "user id": "32",
       "imgURL": xxxx(_user icon url_)
       "address": "New York, NY",
       "facebook": "803834",    
       "twitter": "dens", 
       "gender": "m"(_m for male and f for female_),
       },        
       "tips": {     
           "count": 647(_total number of tips_),     
           "tips content": [     
               { 
                   "category": "Food",     
                   "polarity": 0.049(_sentiment test score_),      
                   "timestamp": "1450378655", 
                   "agreecount": 2
                   "text": "xxxxx",      
                   "len": 148(_length of the text_),      
                   "photo": "y ",      
                   "venue name": "Mimi Cheng's",
                   "venue country": "AU",   
                   "disagreecount": 0
                }, 
                ..._other tips_... 
            ] 
       },
       "friends": {
            "count": 25(_total number of friends_),
            "items": [
                {
                    "id": "101",  
		    "firstName": "xxxx", 
		    "lastName": "xxxx", 
		    "gender": "male"(_or female_),
		    "countryCode": "AU", 
		    "canonicalUrl": "xxxx", 
		    "canonicalPath": "/xxxx", 
		    "photo": {
			    "prefix": "https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/user/", 
		            "suffix": "/xxxx.jpg"
		    }, 
		    "isAnonymous": False(_or True_), 
		    "tips": {"count": 7}, 
		    "lists": {
			    "groups": [
		                {
		        	    "type": "created",
		                    "count": 2, 
		                    "items": []
		        	}
		            ]
		    }, 
		    "homeCity": " Australia", 
		    "bio": "", 
		    "contact": {
			"twitter": "ross", 
		        "facebook": "6523018"
		     }, 
		    "superuser": 1
	        },
	        ..._other friends_... 
           ]
        }
 } 

Usage

Run foursq_crawler.py You may change the central ID (the user ID that the crawler begins) and the upper bound (the maximum number of IDs the crawler captures).