19--Many-P-I--Erik Jenks

[erikjenks]

Not Just _A_PI, many PI

A short list of tasks for today; make your own checkboxes.

• [x] Join Meetup (if you haven't already)
• [x] Join the Meetup API Testing Sandbox group (through the website)
• [x] Take note of your own API key
• [x] Send in an RSVP for "event o" (through irb)
• [x] Post an event_comment for the same event (through irb)
• [x] Join the University Ruby meetup group (through the website, if you haven't already)
• [x] Send in an RSVP for tonight's meetup (through irb, if you haven't already)
• [x] Post an event_comment for tonight's University Ruby meetup (through irb)
• [ ] Get into a favorite API from Mashape or StackOverflow or Meetup, grab a big collection of data, and parse it.

The problem I had in trying to post to the Meetup API was that I didn't read the HTTParty documentation closely enough.

The API wanted parameters like member_id and key, and I tried to put those in a hash as an argument to HTTParty.get like

HTTParty.get("https://api.meetup.com/2/rsvp", 
member_id: "self", key: "SOME_LONG_PRIVATE_DATA", rsvp: "yes" event_id: 118)

-but that doesn't quite work. HTTParty wants my hash wrapped in its own hash:

HTTParty.get("https://api.meetup.com/2/rsvp", query: { 
member_id: "self", key: "SOME_LONG_PRIVATE_DATA", rsvp: "yes" event_id: 118 
})

So, let that be a lesson for all of us.

[erikjenks]

response = HTTParty.get("https://api.meetup.com/2/events?key="insert key here"&group_urlname=meetup-api-testing&sign=true")