/// <summary>
/// Gets the info about a company in Crunchbase
/// </summary>
/// <param name="crunchcompany">string that matches the shortname in crunchbase, for example as in companies collection name</param>
/// <returns>Data in a CrunchBase class structure</returns>
public CrunchBase GetCrunchCompany(string crunchcompany)
{
CrunchJsonStream cjStream = new CrunchJsonStream();
string jsonStream;
jsonStream = cjStream.GetJsonStream(crunchcompany, "company");
if (jsonStream != null)
{
try
{
string jsonLine;
JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
//with the stream, now deserialize into the Crunchbase object
CrunchBase jsonCrunchBase = ser.Deserialize <CrunchBase>(jsonStream);
//assuming that worked, we need to clean up and create some additional meta data
jsonCrunchBase.FixCrunchBaseURL();
jsonCrunchBase.AggregateFunding();
jsonCrunchBase.SplitTagString();
//and now we build the CSV string and write to file
jsonLine = "\t" + jsonCrunchBase.GetImageURL() + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.name + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.homepage_url + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.crunchbase_url + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.description + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.category_code + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.number_of_employees + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.hqcity + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.hqstate + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.hqcountry + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.founded_year + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.GetAggregateFunding().ToString() + "\t" +
jsonCrunchBase.GetKeywordList(); /* + "\t\"" + //there are max of 5 keywords I will dump out
* jsonCrunchBase.overview + "\"";*/
//I really wanted to put the "overview" field into the file, but the XLS import was
//blowing up on the HTML...will need to revisit and fix
// tw note: see http://www.blackbeltcoder.com/Articles/strings/convert-html-to-text
jsonCrunchBase.tabdelimited = jsonLine;
Console.Error.WriteLine("Retrieved info for {0}", jsonCrunchBase.name);
return(jsonCrunchBase);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Oops, the exception {0} happened with {1}", e.ToString(), crunchcompany);
return(null);
}
}
else
{
return(null);
} //if
} //member get crunch
private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
string company = FreeSearch.Text;
CrunchBaseConnect cbc = new CrunchBaseConnect();
CrunchBase cbentry = cbc.GetCrunchCompany(company);
if (cbentry != null)
{
int num_cols = 18;
Object[,] companyrow = new Object[1, num_cols];
//headerstring if needed
/* string[] cpny ={"Company Logo URL","Company Name","Homepage URL","Crunchbase URL",
* "Short Description","Category","Number of Employees","City","State",
* "Country","Year Founded","Total Funding",,"keyword tags"}; */
companyrow[0, 0] = cbentry.GetImageURL();
companyrow[0, 1] = cbentry.name;
companyrow[0, 2] = cbentry.homepage_url;
companyrow[0, 3] = cbentry.crunchbase_url;
companyrow[0, 4] = cbentry.description;
companyrow[0, 5] = cbentry.category_code;
companyrow[0, 6] = cbentry.number_of_employees;
companyrow[0, 7] = cbentry.offices[0].city;
companyrow[0, 8] = cbentry.offices[0].state_code;
companyrow[0, 9] = cbentry.offices[0].country_code;
companyrow[0, 10] = cbentry.founded_year;
companyrow[0, 11] = cbentry.GetAggregateFunding();
companyrow[0, 12] = cbentry.tag_list;
var curr = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveSheet;
var startCell = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveCell;
var endCell = curr.Cells[startCell.Row, startCell.Column + num_cols];
var writeRange = curr.Range[startCell, endCell];
writeRange.Value2 = companyrow;
}
else // it's not a company
{
CrunchFinancial cfc = cbc.GetCrunchFinanceOrg(company);
}
}