On Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:55:30 PM UTC-4, Eric wrote:
>
> I've not used any of the google api, but if you just need to access
> and parse a json formatted api, you would need to use urllib or
> urllib2 to make the request, then use simplejson or json or parse the
> results:
>
> import urllib
> import simplejson
>
> req = urllib.urlopen("http://google.com/api.json";) ##<-example only
>
Also, note that web2py includes its own fetch() function in gluon.tools to
fetch a url -- the difference from the above is that it works on GAE as well
(the above does not). See
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/12#Fetching-an-external-URL (note,
the book incorrectly refers to google.tools, but should be gluon.tools).
Anthony
