Festivals Lab API

An unofficial library to access festival data from the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab API

Festivals Lab is an open data initiative which provides free access to the events of the 12 annual Edinburgh festivals.

The festivals_lab gem wraps the API and ties it with a Ruby bow

• As an alpha, festivals_lab is only developed and tested against Ruby 1.9.3 (other rubies should work, but run the tests first).
• There are no external dependencies for use other than the Ruby standard library.

Install festivals_lab like any other ruby gem:

> gem install festivals_lab

Or, to use it in a project with Bundler, add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'festivals_lab'

…and then run the bundle install command from your shell:

> bundle

To use the FestivalsLab API you will need an API key, which can be obtained from the Festivals Lab website.

The parameters for library method calls match the official documentation, with the following considerations:

• The key and signature parameters are automatically added for you based on your authentication details, so there is no need to supply those to each API call.
• All parameters should be passed as String or Numeric (e.g. Integer or Float), specifically Dates aren't converted into the API's expected format yet
• The library exclusively requests JSON responses from the API, and the pretty parameter is invalid.

api = FestivalsLab.new("xxAPIAccessKeyxx", "xxAPISecretKeyxxxxAPISecretKeyxx")

api.events # The first page of events (using the API's default of 25 per page)

api.events(festival: 'book', size: 50, from: 100)

api.events(festival: 'fringe', post_code: 'EH1', price_to: 5)

The library returns the data as returned from the API, run through a JSON parser

This software is open source and is licensed under the MIT license.

See the LICENSE file for more details

See the CONTRIBUTING file