eventful-node

eventful-node

A simple client library for the Eventful API for event searching. (http://api.eventful.com). This library is a very limited subset of the Eventful API and does not include any authenitcation-required APIs.

Getting Started

To install do:

npm install eventful-node

Then you can require and intiailze a new client with your api_key:

var eventful = require('eventful-node');
var client = new eventful.Client(<YOUR EVENTFUL API KEY>);

Searching for events

To search you can use the search function. Pass a searchEventOptions and the callback.

client.searchEvents({ options }, callback);

Example - Get all events listed in eventful with keyword 'music':

client.searchEvents({ keywords: 'music' }, function(err, data){

  if(err){
  
    return console.error(err);
  
  }
  
  console.log('Recieved ' + data.search.total_items + ' events');
  
  console.log('Event listings: ');
  
  //print the title of each event
  for(var i in data.search.events){
  
    console.log(data.search.events[i].title);
  
  }

});

Getting Possible Event Cateogires

  
  client.listCategories(function(err, data){
    
    if(err){
    
      return console.error(err);
    
    }
    for(var i in data){
      console.log('Available event categories: ');
      console.log('id:' + data[i].id);
      console.log('id:' + data[i].name);
    }
  });
  

Building

This library is built and tested using gruntjs. Be sure to have the grunt command line interface (cli) installed globally on your machine:

# On some systems, you may need to run this command with sudo
npm install grunt-cli -g

To build eventful-node, fork or clone this repository and do:

npm install --dev
grunt

This will compile the typescript into javascript, minify it and place it in the ./bin folder.

Testing

To run the associated unit tests do:

Unix/Linux:

export API_KEY=<YOUR_EVENTFUL_API_KEY>
grunt test

Windows:

set API_KEY=<YOUR_EVENTFUL_API_KEY>
grunt test

Contributing

You can find the latest build status here

This library is written in typescript and as such contributions must be made in typescript. To make things easier, you can start this grunt watch task which will automatically validate and compile your typescript from ./src/eventful-node.ts to javascript in ./lib/eventful-node.js.

grunt watch

Please check the issues tab with 'help wanted' issues to contribute.