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UserReviews

Is a simple api wrapper for:

• Yelp
• Citysearch
• Google Ratings

Getting started

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'user_reviews'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install user_reviews

Usage

Create an api_provider

For Citysearch

auth_info = {publisher_key: 'your_city_search_api_key'}
city_search = UserReviews.provider_factory(:citysearch, auth_info)

For Google Reviews

auth_info = {key: 'your_google_api_key'}
google = UserReviews.provider_factory(:google, auth_info)

For Yelp

auth_info = {consumer_key: 'yelp_consumer_key', consumer_secret:'yelp_consumer_secret' ,token:'yelp_token' , token_secret:'yelp_token_secret'}
yelp = UserReviews.provider_factory(:yelp, auth_info)

Get reviews for a business

city_search.find_reviews_for_business city_search_business_id

Get information about a business

city_search.find_business_by_id(business_id)

Each Review object has 4 attributes:

• author_name
• rating
• reviewed_at
• comment

Each Business object has 4 attributes:

• name
• address
• reference
• average_rating
• url

More information about each API:

• Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview
• CitySearch: http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/
• GoogleReviews: https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add your own provider folder which inherits from the Providers::Base class and tests
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

License

MIT License. Copyright 2013. http://www.unpakt.com