bwapi

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROJECT IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY BRANDWATCH

A Ruby interface to the Brandwatch V2 API.

Documentation

Getting Started

All Brandwatch API calls at present require you to be authenticated, therefore you'll need to create an instance of a client and call login immediately:

bw = BWAPI::Client.new(username: 'username@example.com', password: 'pa$$w0rd')
bw.login

The API returns the oauth/token response with your authentication details.

Examples

Once authenticated, you are then able to make additional requests. The bwapi gem will automatically add your clients access token to the request header. Please see some examples of API requests below:

Get all projects

bw.projects
=> #<Hashie::Mash results=[#<Hashie::Mash clientId=1856278873 clientName="JC BWAPI Demo" creationDate="2013-07-24T17:56:31.074+0000" creatorUserId=158304410 defaultIndustry="general-(recommended)" defaultLangCodes=["en"] description=nil id=1856280126 links=#<Hashie::Mash queries="http://newapi.brandwatch.com//projects/1856280126/queries.json?access_token=bd405bd7-9d1f-4c3d-ab5c-64b77791ae7f"> name="Demo Project">] resultsPage=-1 resultsPageSize=-1 resultsTotal=-1>

Get a specific project

bw.project 1856280126
=> #<Hashie::Mash clientId=1856278873 clientName="JC BWAPI Demo" creationDate="2013-07-24T17:56:31.074+0000" creatorUserId=158304410 defaultIndustry="general-(recommended)" defaultLangCodes=["en"] description=nil id=1856280126 links=#<Hashie::Mash queries="http://newapi.brandwatch.com//projects/1856280126/queries.json?access_token=bd405bd7-9d1f-4c3d-ab5c-64b77791ae7f"> name="Demo Project">

Get a project queries summary

bw.queries_summary 1856280126
=> #<Hashie::Mash results=[#<Hashie::Mash id=1856280351 name="LA Lakers">] resultsPage=-1 resultsPageSize=-1 resultsTotal=-1>

Get user information

bw.me
=> #<Hashie::Mash client=#<Hashie::Mash id=1856278873 name="JC BWAPI Demo" parentId=-1 railsEnabled=false theme="brandwatch"> firstName="BWAPI" id=158304410 lastName="Demo" links=#<Hashie::Mash logout="http://newapi.brandwatch.com/logout?access_token=bd405bd7-9d1f-4c3d-ab5c-64b77791ae7f" user="http://newapi.brandwatch.com//user.json?access_token=bd405bd7-9d1f-4c3d-ab5c-64b77791ae7f"> tags=#<Hashie::Mash notify="true"> uiRole="admin" username="bwapi_demo=jonathan@brandwatch.com">

Debug

In order to see the requests and responses which are being requested and returned, you can enable debug by passing this in as an option when creating your client instance:

bw = BWAPI::Client.new(username: 'username@example.com', password: 'pa$$w0rd', debug: true)

Once enabled a bwapi.log file will be created in the current directory. Please note that you can access the log from your client also:

bw.log.info 'logging information'

The above will only work if you enabled debug when creating your client.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project please fork, create your new feature and then submit a PR merging into the staging branch. Once the feature is merged I'll update the version number and date in the gemspec and merge to master.

Once the staging branch is merged into master a pre-release gem will automatically be created via travis. Subject to no issues being found the new version of the gem will be pushed to RubyGems.

Tests

There are a number of unit tests which are included as part of this project, please run:

rspec spec

Please note that a number of tests still need to be added so I don't currently have complete coverage, subject to workload these will be slowly added over the next few months.

Feedback

I would be more than happy to recieve feedback, please email me at: jonathan.chrisp@gmail.com or jonathan@brandwatch.com

SirCN / bwapi