To what extend do brands advertise via coupons on social media? #nindo #coupons #socialmedia

nindo_couponbrands_activity.py

import requests
import json
import time

from collections import Counter
from pprint import pprint

# avoid stressing nindo too much
# by adding a delay between fetch requests
FETCH_SLEEP = 1

url_base = "https://api.nindo.de/coupons"
url_offset = "https://api.nindo.de/coupons?offset={}"

coupon_list = []

curr_offset = 0

# fetch initial coupons
curr_json = json.loads(requests.get(url_base).content)
coupon_list.extend(curr_json.get('coupons'))

# fetch coupons while hasMore is True
while curr_json.get('hasMore'):
    print('fetching more coupons...')
    curr_offset += 20
    curr_json = json.loads(requests.get(url_offset.format(curr_offset)).content)
    coupon_list.extend(curr_json.get('coupons'))
    print(f"len(coupon_list): {len(coupon_list)}")
    time.sleep(FETCH_SLEEP)

# count brand names
brand_names = [coupon.get("_brand").get("name") for coupon in coupon_list]
pprint(Counter(brand_names))