I'm trying to create a Flex app to get photos from flickr(using YQL) of "something" near a given ZIPCODE and ordered by interestigness.
I can't figure out how. I'm on http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ and i see that there are different tables: flickr.photos.search, flickr.photos.interestigness etc.I guess i have to make an sql join in order to filter the photos but i dpn't know what columns they contain.
Can you please help me?
Thanks
The key table to search on is flickr.photos.search, which allows you to search photos with numerous filters and to sort the results by interestingness as you want.
A simple query which searches photos within a 20km radius of Beverly Hills, CA, USA for the word "hill" and orders the results by interestingness might look like the following.
select * from flickr.photos.search where
has_geo="true" and text="hill" and sort="interestingness-desc"
and radius="20" and radius_units="km" and place_id in (
select place_id from flickr.places(1) where query="90210, USA"
)
ยป Try this in the console
i dpn't know what columns they contain.
When using the console, each table should have an associated URL pointing to the documentation for the service that that table provides. That link, and other information about the table (e.g. required parameters), can be found by executing a query of the form desc <table name>. For example, the query desc flickr.photos.search in the YQL console shows:
That documentationURL (here) takes you to Flickr's documentation page for the flickr.photos.search API method, which shows all of the available parameters that can be used. You'll see descriptions for the where clause parameters from the YQL query we used to search for photos near Beverly Hills.
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I need to query the Google Analytics API to reproduce the following view:
In my Python code I have a list of dimensions and metrics that I want to query:
'metrics': [{'expression': 'ga:productListClicks'}],
'dimensions': [{'name': 'ga:landingPagePath'}],
My problem is that I do not know the name of the columns in the format 'ga:...' and in the Query Explorer there are multiple names for a given column.
Is there a way to see the name of the columns in the format 'ga:...' directly in GA?
If not, how can I find the right names?
If you use the GA query builder, you can use the type ahead/search feature of the tool to find these attributes.
You'll find the query explorer here:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/
This is what it looks like when you find these:
Some of the ones you're looking for are:
ga:impressions
ga:adClicks
ga:CTR
ga:sessions
ga:bounceRate
etc.
The benefit of doing this in the query builder, is you can then test it before going back to python. There are a lot of complications of mixing metrics and dimensions, and making sure what you're doing is valid here first will save headaches!
On the google places api site, they have an example query that returns a load of detail:
site:
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details
query:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4&key=My-API-Key
Place_id appears to be the key here. So I'm trying to reverse-engineer this example, starting from information that a human being would actually have, to end up with this place_id.
Address from the example:
48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia
Places API query from the address:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=48+Pirrama+Rd,+Pyrmont+NSW+2009,+Australia&key=My_API_Key
The result contains a different place_id:
ChIJ8UadyjeuEmsRDt5QbiDg720
And the place details with that place_id are much poorer than the original example:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?placeid=ChIJ8UadyjeuEmsRDt5QbiDg720&key=My-API-Key
So what am I missing here? How do I start from human-place information and get to the place_id that has the great place details?
EDIT: why the down votes? Am I trying to do something that isn't allowed?
Thanks,
sff
I think your text search is returning the office building, whereas your first search is returning the Google office within the office building. You can fix your text search by adding the name of the company and removing some of the search terms.
I'm not sure why just adding 'google' to the search term doesn't return the result you want though.
Hello i am using simple google map places api to get near by atms for users. My client lives around new york and for some strange reason api shows zero results for that place, but works fine near me (pakistan) . I searched for it a little and found out it was google's issue and some other places were also experiencing the same problem. But i never quite found any solution for this.
This is the get call i use
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=40.7128,74.1059&radius=10000000&keyword=atm&key=MY_KEY
I would really appreciate the help. Thank you :)
Google place nearby search maximum 50,000 meters (31 miles) . if you try enter more than 50,000 it not work proper.
There is another way for find all ATM in a city. google provide Text Search Requests
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=atm+in+Reno,NV,89501,USA&key={API_KEY}
query = keyword + in + city Name
for get city name using latitude longitude
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=39.52963,-119.81380&sensor=true
For more information how to get city name using latitude longitude
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start?csw=1#ReverseGeocoding
for more information about how to use Text Search Requests
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search
OR (second way)
There is another way for find all ATM in a city.
Open Google Maps .
create 10-12 or more points latitude , longitude value to trigger
request.
Then use a loop to find all places within these points.
If you want more appropriate results, increase first trigger points
for your requests.
- It is just a logic i created in php.
$triggerPoints = array("lat1,long1", "lat2,long2", "lat3,long3",....);
foreeach(triggerPoints as $tP){
$requestUrl = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=$tP&radius=[YOUR_RADIUS_VALUE]&type=[YOUR_TYPE]&name=panera&key=[YOUR_KEY_HERE";
$results = file_get_contents($requestUrl);
//Do what you want with response JSON data
}
SHORT ANSWER: Use logical types with your needs.
In my case i used food types instead of supermarket. In some cases, my local market named A101 wasnt found under supermarkets. To find which keywords is best for you, you can search below url with your location and map_key and find most common keywords under types for each query and use it.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=40.986527896166244,%2029.24326049097467&rankby=distance&keyword=a101&key=YOUR_MAP_KEY
I am using the Google Maps Places library to do a search for nearby hospitals, but it returns results that aren't necessary hospitals (but have 'hospital' as one of their types). However, I've noticed that actual hospitals have a hospital icon on the map, so Google must somehow know which establishments are actually hospitals. Does anyone know if the public has access to this data?
This is the icon I'm referring to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jfqcayxavjhlyi/Screenshot%202015-03-17%2017.20.19.png?dl=0
Example of request I'm making:
var request = {
location: self.location,
radius: 20000,
types: ['hospital'],
keyword: 'hospital'
};
Example result that isn't a hospital:
{"geometry":{"location":{"k":44.815958,"D":-68.808244}},
"icon":"http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/generic_business-71.png","id":"de6e60bd70b90ba4cb86afe149a60169553607f1",
"name":"Penobscot Community Health Center",
"opening_hours":{"open_now":true,"weekday_text":[]},
"photos":[{"height":320,"html_attributions":[],"width":320}],"place_id":"ChIJj--4INRKrkwRN0z2XkoJtVU",
"rating":3.1,
"reference":"CoQBdAAAADmf3YA0659efzMbCSPOK6SZttkfus7aWBDhrZZyX63Szl256BRcpz81LH6rIuONldYv256tsN7Zv-N6ZkOkJadlD2VS01bs7C4ierKvGUMyJOJu657xL5MvidF3Tgs9iejeJcXsxjDJYOwtN3m3sbfClfWYVnnIL4hMLYV8P9TnEhBurfJv_30CAG2wp1V73POVGhR-7fz1mCdh4OYWSa3Pw0mPupckoQ",
"scope":"GOOGLE",
"types":["hospital","pharmacy","store","health","establishment"],
"vicinity":"1012 Union Street, Bangor",
"html_attributions":[]}
My guess is there are a couple ways to get around this. You might remove the keyword argument from the API, which acts like a search term rather than a specific match on a type of location like the type field does.
You may want to be careful about your radius value choice.
Next, if you do a search on Google Maps in general you'll get a broad assortment of results. Do you need every result to be an actual hospital or can you do your own filtering afterwards?
If you do your own filtering it looks like type information and even icons are embedded in the result JSON. You might see if there's a distinguishing characteristic between the types of results you want and filter by that. Otherwise, any additional graphical data would not be accessible via the API.
I am using facebook graph Api for my application where i want the data of this page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
In this page there is option TV SHOW I want collect all information of that page.
But i didn't any graph api method for this page.
Please help me for this problem.
As far as I can tell, this isn't something you can do. It has to do with what Facebook sets as "indexable" columns in their tables. For example, the page table has a type ID and the TV SHOWS category ID appears to be 89, so you'd think you could run a FQL query such as:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT page_id, name FROM page WHERE type=89
or perhaps:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT page_id, name FROM page WHERE type='TV SHOW'
But you'll get this notice:
Your statement is not indexable. The
WHERE clause must contain an indexable
column.
Unfortunately, the only two indexable columns for WHERE statements using the page table are page_id and name. So you can only query this table for one page at a time. Which makes sense when you consider how expensive a search like that would be on billions of records.
You can do a generic graph search for "TV SHOWS" but it won't give the the results on the page index as you requested:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=TV%20SHOWS&type=page
The Graph API is more about introspection/connections between objects than an open search protocol.