Quick solution for assignment 2

gistfile1.py

import requests
from django.core.management import setup_environ
from ymcproject import settings
setup_environ(settings)
import simplejson as json
from experiments import models

def _get_dict_for_one_page_of_products(page):
    response = requests.get("http://lcboapi.com/products?per_page=100&page=%d" % page)
    lcbo_data = json.loads(response.content)
    return lcbo_data

def _store_products_from_a_page(lcbo_data):
    for product in lcbo_data:
        if "name" in product:
            lcbo_product = models.LcboProduct(name=product['name'])
            lcbo_product.save()

def store_all_lcbo_products():
    has_next = True
    page = 0
    while has_next:
        page += 1
        try: # Thanks alot lcbo api for giving us malformed json.
            lcbo_data = _get_dict_for_one_page_of_products(page)
            _store_products_from_a_page(lcbo_data['result'])
        except json.scanner.JSONDecodeError:
            continue
        if lcbo_data['pager']['is_final_page']:
            has_next = False

print "Begin stealing booze..."
store_all_lcbo_products()
print "%d liquor products have been stolen" % models.LcboProduct.objects.count()
# print "Type the following: models.LcboProduct.objects.all()"
# import pdb; pdb.set_trace()