/// <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
private List <cbCompanyObject> getallcompanies()
{
CrunchJsonStream cjStream = new CrunchJsonStream();
CompanyGenerator companyGenerator = new CompanyGenerator();
JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string jsonStream;
Console.Error.WriteLine("Getting ready to get the company names");
//go hit the crunchbase api to get a list of all the companies in their database
List <cbCompanyObject> companyNames = companyGenerator.GetCompanyNames();
Console.Error.WriteLine("Back from getting the company names");
}
public List <cbSearchResults> SearchResults(string querystring)
{
CrunchJsonStream sr = new CrunchJsonStream();
string jsonStream = sr.GetJsonSearch(querystring);
if (jsonStream != null)
{
try
{
DiagnosticTimer.StartTimer("firstpage");
JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
//with the stream, now deserialize into the Crunchbase object
ResultsPage Results = ser.Deserialize <ResultsPage>(jsonStream);
DiagnosticTimer.StopTimer("firstpage");
// we got the first page create a big list of all the pages
if (Results.total < 11)
{ // no extra pages
return(Results.results);
}
else //get the other pages
{
bool ShowProgress = Results.total > 60 ? true : false;
SearchingCrunchBaseProgressForm progressdialog = new SearchingCrunchBaseProgressForm();
if (ShowProgress) // put up the dialog
{
progressdialog.TotalFound = Results.total;
progressdialog.Retireved = 10;
progressdialog.EstimatedTime = new TimeSpan(DiagnosticTimer.GetTimerTimeSpan("firstpage").Ticks *(Results.total));
progressdialog.Show();
}
List <cbSearchResults> allresults = Results.results;
for (int i = 2; i < (Results.total / 10) + 1; i++)
{
jsonStream = sr.GetJsonSearch(querystring + "&page=" + i.ToString());
if (jsonStream != null)
{
try
{
ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
//with the stream, now deserialize into the Crunchbase object
Results = ser.Deserialize <ResultsPage>(jsonStream);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Oops, the exception {0} happened with {1}", e.ToString(), querystring);
return(null);
}
allresults.AddRange(Results.results);
if (ShowProgress)
{
progressdialog.Retireved = i * 10;
progressdialog.EstimatedTime = new TimeSpan(DiagnosticTimer.GetTimerTimeSpan("firstpage").Ticks *(Results.total - i));
progressdialog.Update();
if (progressdialog.Canceled)
{
progressdialog.Close();
return(allresults);
}
}
}
}
if (ShowProgress)
{
progressdialog.Close();
}
return(allresults);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Oops, the exception {0} happened with {1}", e.ToString(), querystring);
return(null);
}
}
else
{
return(null);
}
}