getDataFromMeetup_api

# Name: Yunyun Chen
# Email: yc555@georgetown.edu



import json
import requests

def getEvent(url, key, city, state, topic, text) :
	response = ''
	params = {'country':'us', 'topic':topic, 'text':text, 'city':city, 'state':state, 'key':key, 'page':1000}
	r = requests.get(url, params = params)
#	print(r.url)
	return r.text


def main():
	url = 'https://api.meetup.com/2/open_events'
	key = '23767d3d3d304cb3ee1f68a5740'
	city = ['washington', 'nyc','los angeles','boston','chicago','SanFrancisco','Seattle','Austin','Huston','Philadelphia','Miami','Atlanta','SanDiego']
	state = ['DC', 'NY','CA','MA','IL','CA','WA','TX','TX','PA','FL','GA','CA']
	topic = 'photo'
	text = None
	num = 0
	for i in range(0,len(city)) : 
		response = getEvent(url, key, city[i], state[i], topic, text)
	#	print response
		num = decode(response,num) #a gloabl counter
		if(num>=1000) :
			break

def decode(response,num):
	results = json.loads(response.encode('ascii','ignore').decode())['results']
	#print results
	#print len(results)
	for i in range(0, len(results)):
		event = results[i]
		num += 1
        print("Event #"+str(num))
        print("Event name : "+event['name'])
        print("Event ID : "+str(event['id']))
        print("Event URL : "+event['event_url'])
		try :
			print("Event City : "+str(event['venue']['city']))
		except KeyError :
			print("Event City : Not Available")
		try :
			print("Event Group name : "+str(event['group']['name']))
		except KeyError :
			print("Event Group : Not Available")
		print("Event Created Time : "+ str(event['created']))
		if(num>=1000) :
			break
	return num

main()