In [1]:
import requests
#software list API for "python"
r = requests.get("http://usesthis.com/api/v1/software/"+ input("Enter the name of a software product or web app:").lower())
#view the generated url, response status, and content-type
print(r.url + '\nstatus:' + str(r.status_code) + '\ncontent-type:' + r.headers['content-type'])
Enter the name of a software product or web app:Android http://usesthis.com/api/v1/software/android status:200 content-type:application/json
In [2]:
import json
#get json text
j = json.loads(r.text)
print(j)
{'gear': {'interviews': [{'slug': 'alice.rutherford', 'name': 'Alice Rutherford'}, {'slug': 'pascal.finette', 'name': 'Pascal Finette'}, {'slug': 'karl.anderson', 'name': 'Karl Anderson'}, {'slug': 'joshua.stein', 'name': 'joshua stein'}, {'slug': 'colin.gourlay', 'name': 'Colin Gourlay'}, {'slug': 'cynthia.krueger', 'name': 'Cynthia Krueger'}, {'slug': 'jim.munroe', 'name': 'Jim Munroe'}, {'slug': 'david.fox', 'name': 'David Fox'}, {'slug': 'eric.mill', 'name': 'Eric Mill'}, {'slug': 'joel.david.hamkins', 'name': 'Joel David Hamkins'}, {'slug': 'yan.zhu', 'name': 'Yan Zhu'}, {'slug': 'matt.cutts', 'name': 'Matt Cutts'}, {'slug': 'holmes.wilson', 'name': 'Holmes Wilson'}, {'slug': 'romain.guy', 'name': 'Romain Guy'}, {'slug': 'jerry.belich', 'name': 'Jerry Belich'}, {'slug': 'christian.neukirchen', 'name': 'Christian Neukirchen'}, {'slug': 'lynn.root', 'name': 'Lynn Root'}, {'slug': 'nick.bradbury', 'name': 'Nick Bradbury'}, {'slug': 'floor.drees', 'name': 'Floor Drees'}, {'slug': 'flourish.klink', 'name': 'Flourish Klink'}, {'slug': 'ben.welsh', 'name': 'Ben Welsh'}, {'slug': 'ethan.schoonover', 'name': 'Ethan Schoonover'}, {'slug': 'eric.s.raymond', 'name': 'Eric S Raymond'}, {'slug': 'lou.montulli', 'name': 'Lou Montulli'}, {'slug': 'ryan.north', 'name': 'Ryan North'}, {'slug': 'benjamin.mako.hill', 'name': 'Benjamin Mako Hill'}, {'slug': 'yanier.gonzalez', 'name': 'Yanier Gonzalez'}, {'slug': 'brad.fitzpatrick', 'name': 'Brad Fitzpatrick'}, {'slug': 'tom.scott', 'name': 'Tom Scott'}, {'slug': 'robert.love', 'name': 'Robert Love'}, {'slug': 'jeff.lamarche', 'name': 'Jeff LaMarche'}, {'slug': 'adam.glazier', 'name': 'Adam Glazier'}, {'slug': 'dave.shea', 'name': 'Dave Shea'}, {'slug': 'laura.khalil', 'name': 'Laura Khalil'}, {'slug': 'colin.percival', 'name': 'Colin Percival'}, {'slug': 'tim.bray', 'name': 'Tim Bray'}, {'slug': 'danah.boyd', 'name': 'danah boyd'}, {'slug': 'violet.blue', 'name': 'Violet Blue'}, {'slug': 'gina.trapani', 'name': 'Gina Trapani'}], 'slug': 'android', 'description': 'A mobile phone platform.', 'url': 'https://developers.google.com/android/?csw=1', 'name': 'Android'}}
In [3]:
#loop through interviews and store software titles in a list
software = []
#print('People that use python use:')
for i in j['gear']['interviews']:
#print('\n' + i['name'])
#do another request to the interview api to get each person's software
r2 = requests.get("http://usesthis.com/api/v1/interviews/" + i['slug'])
intvw = json.loads(r2.text)
for s in intvw['interview']['gear']['software']:
#print(s['name'], end=', ')
software.append(s['name'])
from collections import Counter
counts = Counter(software)
#only get the items that are used by more than 4 people, and remove the python count since they all have it
#got this from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4484690/how-to-filter-dictionary-in-python
counts_over4 = dict([(labels, values) for labels, values in counts.items() if values > 4 if labels != 'Python'])
#print(counts_over4)
In [4]:
#sort the list
from operator import itemgetter
#create a visual of the items that more than 2 people use
#got this from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19198920/using-counter-in-python-to-build-histogram
%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
labels, values = zip(*sorted(counts_over4.items(), key=itemgetter(1)))
indexes = np.arange(len(labels))
height = 0.25
plt.figure(num=1,figsize=(10,15))
plt.barh(indexes, values, height)
plt.yticks(indexes, labels, size='small')
plt.show()
In [ ]: