SiliconPrairieEvent

Event Scraper collecting information from several calendars in the Silicon Prairie.

The gem utilizes an api which is located at: https://event-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/all_events

Source code for api: https://github.com/omahacodeschool/spn-events-api

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'silicon_prairie_event'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install silicon_prairie_event

This gem is very similar to many other data scraping gems.

Each event will be formatted as a standard ruby object.

=> #<SiliconPrairieEvent::Event:0x007fd889c9dce0
   @bearing=nil,
   @distance=nil,
   @event_address=" 1201 INFINITY CT",
   @event_author="Firespring",
   @event_date="2014-10-17T06:00:00-05:00",
   @event_description="",
   @event_end="2014-10-19T08:30:00-05:00",
   @event_name="Hack Lincoln",
   @event_origin="Silicon_Prairie_News",
   @event_state="NE",
   @event_url="http://siliconprairienews.com/events/hack-lincoln/",
   @event_zip_code="68512",
   @id=106,
   @latitude=40.7316771,
   @longitude=-96.7036615>

These objects can be accessed as so.

   first_event = SiliconPrarieEvent::Event.all_events[0]
   first_event.event_address
   => " 1201 INFINITY CT"

Below are the methods you can run to get filtered collections of events.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.all_events

Returns an Array of all events from all calendars enter:

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.lincoln_events

Returns an Array of events from the Startup Lincoln Calendar.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.tech_omaha_events

Returns an Array of events from the Tech Omaha Calendar.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.spn_events

Returns an Array of events form the Silicon Prairie News Calendar.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_today

Returns an Array of events from all Calendars that are scheduled for the current day.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.rest_of_week

Returns an Array of events from all calendars for current day to end of current week.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_all_week

Returns an Array of events from all calendars for all of current week.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_this_month

Returns an Array of events from all calendars for all of current month.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.past_events

Returns an Array of events from the past

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_by_month(month)

In this instance month should be a string in the format of '01', '02', '11'.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_by_month('01')
=> 'Array of months for January'
SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_by_month('12')
=> 'Array of months for December'

Returns an Array of events from all calendars by the given month.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_near(range)

In this instance range should be an integer number.

SiliconPrairieEvent::Event.events_near(5)
=> 'Array of events within 5 miles'

Returns an Array of events from all calendars for the given range of miles.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/omahacodeschool/silicon_prairie_event/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request