/// <summary>
/// GetCrunchFinanceOrg retrieves the crunchbase info based on the permalink passed or null if not found.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="financeorg">permalink to a firm in the finance-organization namespace on crunchbase</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public CrunchFinancial GetCrunchFinanceOrg(string financeorg)
{
CrunchJsonStream cjStream = new CrunchJsonStream();
string jsonStream = cjStream.GetJsonStream(financeorg, "financial-organization");
if (jsonStream != null)
{
try
{
JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
//with the stream, now deserialize into the Crunchbase object
CrunchFinancial jsonCrunchBase = ser.Deserialize <CrunchFinancial>(jsonStream);
Console.Error.WriteLine("Retrieved info for financial-organization {0}", jsonCrunchBase.name);
return(jsonCrunchBase);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Oops, the exception {0} happened with {1}", e.ToString(), financeorg);
return(null);
}
}
else
{
return(null);
}
}
/// <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