Using Hunch on Google App engine

Question

I want to use Hunch on Google App Engine in Python. What libraries do I need to use to do this or are there any good online tutorials that could help me with this?

Answer 1

I would start from the API Overview documentation of the official site.

Basically Hunch API calls are authenticated GET or POST HTTP requests where the returned values are JSON encoded.

Example:
get the list of the top recommended movies:
http://api.hunch.com/api/v1/get-recommendations/?topic_ids=all_544&limit=10

get-recommendation is just one of the many available routes that Hunch API offers; to get an overview of all the available methods, have fun playing with the API console.

On google App Engine you would need:

• UrlFetch API to make the HTTP Api calls
• simplejson to decode the results

Here are a couple of Hunch GAE projects that should help you to get started:

• hunch-gift-app
• hunch-sample-app

As referenced by gleitz, you can find a Python wrapper here.

Answer 2

Recently, mnn2104 wrote a Python wrapper for the Hunch API called HunchPY.

As for tutorials, a good place to start is the the Hunch Developer homepage and Hunch's Github profile.