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csu/pyquora

A Python module for fetching and parsing data from Quora.

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Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#56 from Backlog to Ready
Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#55 from Backlog to Ready
Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#53 from Backlog to Ready
Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#27 from Backlog to Ready
Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#26 from Backlog to Ready
Jan 04 2015 17:25

@csu moved csu/pyquora#57 from Backlog to Working

Erwan

@aaronwinter

Travis has this nice badge that you can put on the README.md and does everything automatically but unittest would do the job as well I guess

Christopher Su

@csu

I mean what should we write our test cases in?

Added the badge

Erwan

@aaronwinter

I am reading the doc atm, not too sure if there is a special format that you can give to Travis or if we use unittest that Travis will automatically execute whenever there is a new pull request.

Christopher Su

@csu

I've set it up already

Essentially, you have a travis.yml file that specifies things like setup before running tests and how to run the tests themselves

You can then have the tests be essentially anything that you could run in a virtual environment

So Makefiles work, tests written in unittest/nose/etc. all work

And on every build, Travis will just run the commands necessary

I'm deciding between unittest and nose now

Erwan

@aaronwinter

Oh I see

Christopher Su

@csu

Here: https://github.com/csu/pyquora/blob/master/.travis.yml

Right now, it just runs tests/test_all.py which just does nothing

Alright, going with nose2

Actually, scratch that. Using nose

Erwan

@aaronwinter

Ok, I am going to bed now. Ttyl!

Christopher Su

@csu

Alright

Erwan

@aaronwinter

We need style guidelines recent commits have made pyquora.py very heterogenous

Erwan

@aaronwinter

Variable/Function names, comments, methods' contracts and signatures etc...

Christopher Su

@csu

Yeah, we have a lot of refactoring to do

It's starting to get really difficult to read

Christopher Su

@csu

Made a Kanban board: https://huboard.com/csu/pyquora/

Saikat Kumar Dey

@saikatkumardey

I am just checking out pyquora and I think it's a cool initiative by you guys. :smile:

I think that it would be great if the Usage instructions on the README file could be updated.

Since, we don't have new keyword in python. I am referring to this line => " quora = new Quora() "

Thanks. :smile:

@csu

Saikat Kumar Dey

@saikatkumardey

@aaronwinter

Erwan

@aaronwinter

@csu have corrected it, thanks @arkro !

Christopher Su

@csu

hey guys! I'm back from holiday, so I'm back to being active again

I just cleaned up some of the duplicate/wontfix issues and also fixed a bunch of problems with #46 (in #52)

The new API with properties is looking pretty good. I added alias methods for legacy support.

Christopher Su

@csu

Also, checkout this Kanban board: https://huboard.com/csu/pyquora/

We can keep track of who is working on what with it

Nik0l

@Nik0l

hi guys! great job done! I was wondering how to get all answers for a particular question, any ideas? something like Quora.question['all_answers']

Rohith PR

@rohithpr

Thanks to infinite scroll on Quora this hasn't been done so far.

You could use Quora.get_latest_answers('what-is-python') and Quora.get_top_answers() (oh wait, this hasn't been done yet!) Someone should do it.

Christopher Su

@csu

We don't do it and I don't think we should because a past API did include answers, and they got a cease and desist from Quora for including answer content

We haven't gotten one yet, and I suspect not including answer content is one of the reasons why

Rohith PR

@rohithpr

Ohk..

Nik0l

@Nik0l

well, I guess it is still possible to provide metadata on the answers without their content. For example, timestamps, upvotes, authors etc...?

Christopher Su

@csu

Multiple quora changes broke pyquora again :(

including scraper detection/blocking

we might want/need to switch to PhantomJS or Selenium or something similar that emulates/drives a web browser, so the scraper can't be detected

harshvardhan145

@harshvardhan145

Hi...I would like to contribute..please get me started

Erwan

@aaronwinter

@csu have you explored the headless browser route? I haven't look much into the breaking changes Quora has made, but if you think they are significant enough then we might as well roll out a complete new version of pyquora. In any case, I would be down to organize a bugfix sprint - it could also help the wannabe contributors to get onboard.

Aidis Stukas

@aidiss

Hey, is it only Python 2?

It install fine with python 3 but then it drops and ImportError:
----> 8 from user import User, Activity
ImportError: No module named 'user'

chenli

@FirstLoveLife

Hello, guys. I have one question about quora. Every time I open quora, the cursor is always on search bar. I am a cvim user, so <kbd>j</kbd> <kbd>k</kbd> is often be used on chrome. Every time I type the two in quora, they will be typed into search bar rather than to move up or down. So, how can i let the cursor not on search bar by default?