Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the Google+ API. We also discussed how to register a project on the Google Developer Console and how to enable the desired API(s) for our project.

The chapter started with an example that showed how to perform a search using the Google+ API. The discussion was then built upon this example in order to embed the use of the API in a web application. Taking advantage of Flask, a micro framework for web development that allows to get up and running with a few lines of code, we built a web GUI to show the results of a search session.

The next step was to analyze textual notes from a user or page. After downloading the user activities and storing them in the JSON Lines format, we discussed a few details of TF-IDF as ...

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