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March 11, 2011 01:22
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Here's a brittle but mostly-worky oneliner to turn a search result into an excel-loadable file
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| # run this in Terminal | |
| curl "http://api.infochimps.com/social/network/tw/search/people_search?q=qualcomm&apikey=YOURAPIKEY" | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json" ; $_ = $stdin.read.gsub(%r{^george_api_explorer\((.*)\)$}, "\\1") ; rows = JSON.load($_); ks= rows["results"].first.keys ; ks.sort! ; rows["results"].each{|row| puts row.values_at(*ks).map{|el| el.gsub(%r{[",]+},"") }.join(",") } ' > FILE_TO_SAVE_IN.csv |
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