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The WalkScore Library
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(Unofficial) Python Bindings for the WalkScore API
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The WalkScore Library is a Python library that provides Python bindings for the
WalkScore API <https://www.walkscore.com/>
_. It enables you to retrieve
WalkScores, TransitScores, and BikeScores from the API within your Python code
in Python versions 3.6 and higher.
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The WalkScore Library is completely unaffiliated with
WalkScore <http://www.walkscore.com>
_. It is entirely unofficial and was
developed based on publicly available documentation of the WalkScore APIs
published to the WalkScore website. Use of WalkScore is subject to WalkScore's
licenses and terms of service, and this library is not endorsed by WalkScore
or any affiliates thereof.
COMPLETE DOCUMENTATION: http://walkscore-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
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Installation
To install the WalkScore Library, just execute:
.. code:: bash
$ pip install walkscore-api
Dependencies
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- | *
Validator-Collection v1.3 <https://github.com/insightindustry/validator-collection>
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| * Backoff-Utils v.1.0 <https://github.com/insightindustry/backoff-utils>
_ or higher
Key WalkScore Features
- Python representation of WalkScores, TransitScores, and BikeScores.
- Easy serialization and deserialization of API responses to Python objects,
dict
objects or JSON - Built-in back-off/retry logic if the WalkScore API is unstable at any mometn in time
- Robust error handling to surface meaningful information to help you debug your
code.
Hello, World and Basic Usage
- Import the WalkScore API
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.. code-block:: python
from walkscore import WalkScoreAPI
- Initialize the API
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You can either use a single object to communicate with all of the available
WalkScore APIs, or initialize a single object for each API:
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api_key = 'YOUR API KEY GOES HERE'
walkscore_api = WalkScoreAPI(api_key = api_key)
- Retrieve a Score
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address = '123 Anyplace St Anywhere, AK 12345'
result = walkscore_api.get_score(latitude = 123.45, longitude = 54.321, address = address)
the WalkScore for the location
result.walk_score
the TransitScore for the location
result.transit_score
the BikeScore for the location
result.bike_score
Questions and Issues
You can ask questions and report issues on the project's
Github Issues Page <https://github.com/insightindustry/walkscore-api/issues>
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Contributing
We welcome contributions and pull requests! For more information, please see the
Contributor Guide <https://walkscore-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>
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Testing
We use TravisCI <http://travisci.org>
_ for our build automation and
ReadTheDocs <https://readthedocs.org>
_ for our documentation.
Detailed information about our test suite and how to run tests locally can be
found in our Testing Reference <https://walkscore-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/testing.html>
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License
WalkScore is made available under an
MIT License <https://walkscore-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html>
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