Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: quora
Version: 0.1.21
Summary: Fetches and parses data from Quora.
Home-page: https://github.com/csu/pyquora
Author: Christopher Su
Author-email: chris+py@christopher.su
License: UNKNOWN
Description: pyquora
        =======
        
        A Python module to fetch and parse data from Quora.
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        You will need `Python 2 <https://www.python.org/download/>`_.
        `pip <http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html>`_ is
        recommended for installing dependencies.
        
        Install using pip:
        
        ::
        
            pip install quora
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        User statistics
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        ::
        
            from quora import User
        
            user = User('Christopher-J-Su')
        
            # Get user activity
            activity = user.activity
        
            # Do stuff with the parsed activity data
            print activity
        
            # Get user statistics
            stats = user.stats
        
            # Take a gander
            print stats
        
        Questions
        ~~~~~~~~~
        
        ::
        
            from quora import Quora
        
            # Get question statistics
            question = Quora.get_question_stats('what-is-python')
        
            # question is:
            # {
            #     'want_answers': 3,
            #     'question_text': u'What is python?', 
            #     'topics': [u'Science, Engineering, and Technology', u'Technology', u'Electronics', u'Computers'], 
            #     'question_details': None, 'answer_count': 1, 
            #     'answer_wiki': '<div class="hidden" id="answer_wiki"><div id="ld_mqcfmt_15628"><div id="__w2_po3p1uM_wiki"></div></div></div>',
            # }
        
        Answers
        ~~~~~~~
        
        ::
        
            from quora import Quora
        
            # The function can be called in any of the following ways.
            answer = Quora.get_one_answer('http://qr.ae/6hARL')
            answer = Quora.get_one_answer('6hARL')
            answer = Quora.get_one_answer(question, author) # question and answer are variables
        
            # answer is:
            # {
            #     'want_answers': 8, 
            #     'views': 197, 
            #     'author': u'Mayur-P-R-Rohith', 
            #     'question_link': u'https://www.quora.com/Does-Quora-similar-question-search-when-posing-a-new-question-work-better-than-the-search-box-ove', 
            #     'comment_count': 1, 
            #     'answer': '...', 
            #     'upvote_count': 5
            # }
        
            # Get the latest answers from a question
            latest_answers = Quora.get_latest_answers('what-is-python')
        
        Features
        --------
        
        Currently implemented
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        -  User statistics
        -  User activity
        -  Question statistics
        -  Answer statistics
        
        Todo
        ~~~~
        
        -  Detailed user information (followers, following, etc.; not just
           statistics)
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
