RakutenWebService

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This gem provides a client for easily accessing Rakuten Web Service APIs.

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Prerequisite

  • Ruby 2.1.0 or later

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

  gem 'rakuten_web_service'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rakuten_web_service

Usage

Prerequisite: Getting Application ID

You need to get Application ID for your application to access to Rakuten Web Service APIs. If you have not got it, register your application here.

Configuration

At first, you have to specify your application's key. And you can tell the client your afiiliate id with RakutenWebService.configuration.

  RakutenWebService.configuration do |c|
    # (Required) Appliction ID for your application.
    c.application_id = 'YOUR_APPLICATION_ID'

    # (Optional) Affiliate ID for your Rakuten account.
    c.affiliate_id = 'YOUR_AFFILIATE_ID' # default: nil

    # (Optional) # of retries to send requests when the client receives 
    # When the number of requests in some period overcomes the limit, the endpoints will return 
    # too many requests error. Then the client tries to retry to send the same request after a
    # while.
    c.max_retries = 3 # default: 5

    # (Optional) Enable debug mode. When set true, the client streams out all HTTP requests and
    # responses to the standard error.
    c.debug = true # default: false
  end

Please note that you need to replace 'YOUR_APPLICATION_ID' and 'YOUR_AFFILIATE_ID' with actual ones you have.

Search Ichiba Items

  items = RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Item.search(keyword: 'Ruby') # This returns Enumerable object
  items.first(10).each do |item|
    puts "#{item['itemName']}, #{item.price} yen" # You can refer to values as well as Hash.
  end

Pagerizing

Responses of resources' search such as RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Item.search have methods for paginating fetched resources.

  items = RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Item.search(keyword: 'Ruby')
  items.count #=> 30. In default, the API returns up to 30 items matched with given keywords.

  last_items = items.page(3) # Skips first 2 pages.

  # Go to the last page
  while last_items.has_next_page?
    last_items = last_items.next_page
  end

  # Shows the title of the last 30 items
  last_items.each do |item|
    puts item.name
  end

  # Easier way to fetch all resources page 3 and latter
  items.page(3).all do |item|
    puts item.name
  end

Genre

Genre class provides an interface to traverse sub genres.

  root = RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Genre.root # root genre
  # children returns sub genres
  root.children.each do |child|
    puts "[#{child.id}] #{child.name}"
  end

  # Use genre id to fetch genre object
  RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Genre[100316].name # => "水・ソフトドリンク"

Ichiba Item Ranking

  ranking_by_age = RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Item.ranking(age: 30, sex: 1) # returns the TOP 30 items for Male in 30s
  # For attributes other than 'itemName', see: http://webservice.rakuten.co.jp/api/ichibaitemsearch/#outputParameter
  ranking_by_age.each do |ranking|
    puts ranking['itemName']
  end

  ranking_by_genre = RakutenWebService::Ichiba::Genre[200162].ranking # the TOP 30 items in "水・ソフトドリンク" genre
  ranking_by_genre.each do |ranking|
    puts ranking['itemName']
  end

Supported APIs

Now rakuten_web_service is supporting the following APIs:

Rakuten Ichiba APIs

Rakuten Books APIs

Rakuten Kobo APIs

Rakuten Recipe APIs

Rakuten GORA APIs

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request