Venue Info Scraper

The name is pretty self-explanatory, leverages the yelp-fusion API to get information on given venues.

Installation

NPM

npm install -g scrapethenslide

At which point rrrr will (hopefully) be available.

Source

git clone https://github.com/iCalculated/venueScraper.git
cd venueScraper
npm install

Create a .env file in the directory with

YELP_API_KEY=<key>

To get a key, follow the steps here.

Usage

rrrr [options] [files || list...]

Flags:

Flags:
  -h, --help      show this help message.
  -n, --names     use venue names instead of yelp-fusion IDs.
  --city          required with -n, the city the venues are in.
  --format        how to format output (JSON, CSV, hours).
  --outfile       file to write to, out.json by default without --city.

Examples:

rrrr infile

Given an infile of yelp-ids, will return JSON output matching the Venue schema.

rrrr --names --city "New Orleans, LA" --format hours infile

Given an infile of venue names in New Orleans, will return JSON output providing only yelp-id identifier and opening hours.

Yelp API

The Yelp API imposes some limitations on usage. The scraper performs requests sequentially to avoid triggering the QPS limit and will likely not be impacted by the 5000 requests/day limit assuming moderate use.

Trivia

I came up with the invocation rrrr at 2 in the morning.