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Raoot
Raoot

Reputation: 1771

Storing API data from requests in Rails App?

I'd like to make requests to APIs for a range of sites like Twitter, Facebook etc and store the results in my database.

The example request Twitter give is here: https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=TwitterAPI&include_entities=true

How do I go about making the request from my Rails 3 App and then store the data? I don't necessarily need all of the data, i'm mostly interested in followers in this case.

Many thanks in advance.

EDIT:

I tried adding this to my artists controller's show method:

require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
result = JSON.parse(open("https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=thesubways&include_entities=true").read)

parsed_json = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(result)
@results = parsed_json["followers_count"]

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2203

Answers (1)

Fivell
Fivell

Reputation: 11929

As for start ....

require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
result = JSON.parse(open("https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=TwitterAPI&include_entities=true").read)
# now you have result["followers_count"] ... and can use it to store with AR object or raw sql query

you also must use database in your rails project, but first of all you should read official guide http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

Upvotes: 1

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