TouristFriend

TouristFriend is an API for searching and combining results from Google Places and Yelp.

For the foursquare implementation check out the branch foursquare

Returns a combined list of places ranked by their ratings as a Bayesian estimate

Try it out

$ curl http://touristfriend.club/api/40000/29.743883,-95.361621/restaurants

Sample output

[
  {
    "Rating": "9.49",
    "Sources": 1,
    "Number_of_Ratings": 868,
    "Location": "37.761594,-122.42427",
    "Name": "Pizzeria Delfina"
  },
  {
    "Rating": "9.39",
    "Sources": 1,
    "Number_of_Ratings": 404,
    "Location": "37.7682006597,-122.421604657",
    "Name": "Shizen"
  },
  {
    "Rating": "9.32",
    "Sources": 1,
    "Number_of_Ratings": 45,
    "Location": "37.763093,-122.424281",
    "Name": "Turner's Kitchen"
  },
  // Up to 15 results...
]

URI Breakdown: http://touristfriend.club/api/{meters}/{latitude},{longitude}/{query}

Setup

You'll need to acquire API keys for each of the individual services and add them to api_keys.py.

• Google Places
• Yelp

Set environment variables

# Google Places
$ export G_API=YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY

# Yelp
$ export YELP_API_KEY=YOUR_YELP_API_KEY

# Flask app, standing on the root of the cloned repo
$ export FLASK_APP=$(pwd)/touristfriend/__init__.py

Install dependencies

pip install -U Flask flask-cors

Run it

# For localhost
$ flask run # 127.0.0.1
# For external server
$ flask run --host "0.0.0.0" &

Try it

$ curl http://localhost:5000/api/40000/48.888001,2.337442/restaurants

With Docker example

$ docker build -t tfriend --build-arg GMAPS_KEY=YOUR_GOOGLE_MAPS_KEY \
  --build-arg G_API=YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY \
  --build-arg YELP_API_KEY=YOUR_YELP_API_KEY . && \
  docker run -p 5000:5000 tfriend

Feel free to use the touristfriend.club API for testing or demoing, if you plan on using it on production, consider deploying it yourself.

LICENSE: MIT