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codeforamerica / ebt-near-me

A mobile app that shows the nearest places you can use an EBT card nationwide.
http://ebtnearme.org
MIT License
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Pull hours/'open now' #6

Open fureigh opened 10 years ago

fureigh commented 10 years ago

Turns out neither Yelp's Search API nor its Business API returns hours information. Boo.

Remaining options include Kimono, with which I made some progress tonight, or writing a scraper. Google Places can provide this information through an API but I'm skeptical about its comprehensiveness.

alanjosephwilliams commented 10 years ago

@daguar what was the Places-crosswalk-as-a-service you mentioned?

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Turns out neither Yelp's Search API nor its Business API returns hours information. Boo.

Remaining options include Kimono, with which I made some progress tonight, or writing a scraper. Google Places can provide this information through an API but I'm skeptical about its comprehensiveness.

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daguar commented 10 years ago

Factual. Let me know if you wanna try it and I can dig up CFA's key and/or ping my contact there

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@daguar what was the Places-crosswalk-as-a-service you mentioned?

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Turns out neither Yelp's Search API nor its Business API returns hours information. Boo.

Remaining options include Kimono, with which I made some progress tonight, or writing a scraper. Google Places can provide this information through an API but I'm skeptical about its comprehensiveness.

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fureigh commented 10 years ago

I'm inclined to simply scrape from Yelp because I think it'll have data for more of these locations, but @daguar, remind me how that crosswalk is preferable to just using the Google Places API?

fureigh commented 9 years ago

Updated the title after learning more about Factual. :)

morganastra commented 9 years ago

Factual API docs: http://developer.factual.com/api-docs/

And it's supported in apigee so that's a convenient way to play around with it

fureigh commented 9 years ago

@jumpcannon :thumbsup: Thanks!

fureigh commented 9 years ago

Another consideration to cover: @brendanbabb mentioned that some farmer's markets in Anchorage are open year-round and others are seasonal. So depending on the available data, hours alone may not cover whether something's open now.