From 26b425f31c479884c760f0599b299f282b0a3288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: spbeach46 <spbeacg46@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 13:56:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Changed to_csv mode to append to allow for writing if not
 present and appending if present

---
 ebay_api.py | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ebay_api.py b/ebay_api.py
index 846f829..20f328c 100644
--- a/ebay_api.py
+++ b/ebay_api.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class FindingApi:
                 response = requests.get("https://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1",
                         params=params)
                 data = response.json()
-            return data # May want to save raw json as text file here or in main
+            return data
 
     def get_ids_from_cats(self):
         '''
@@ -43,15 +43,14 @@ class FindingApi:
         data = self.get_data()
         itemid_results_list = []
         try:
-            big_data = pd.read_csv('big_data.csv')
+            training = pd.read_csv('training.csv')
             for item in data['findItemsByCategoryResponse'][0]['searchResult'][0]['item']:
-                if item not in big_data.values:
+                if item not in training.values:
                     itemid_results_list.append(item['itemId'][0]) # itemId
                     # values are in lists for some reason
         except pd.errors.EmptyDataError:
             for item in data['findItemsByCategoryResponse'][0]['searchResult'][0]['item']:
-                itemid_results_list.append(item['itemId'][0]) # itemId
-                    # values are in lists for some reason
+                itemid_results_list.append(item['itemId'][0])
         item_id_results = [','.join(itemid_results_list[n:n+20]) for n in list(range(0,
             len(itemid_results_list), 20))]
 
@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ class ShoppingApi:
     '''
     def get_item_from_findItemsByCategory(self, item_id_results):
         '''
-        Gets raw JSON data from multiple live listings
+        Gets raw JSON data from multiple live listings given multiple itemIds
         '''
         for twenty_id in item_id_results:
             params = {
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ class ShoppingApi:
             response = requests.get("https://open.api.ebay.com/shopping?", params=params)
             data = response.json()
             return data
-            # Maybe end def here and create new def for curating data
+
 class CurateData:
     '''
     Contains functions for curating data for machine learning training sets
@@ -91,12 +90,12 @@ class CurateData:
 
         for nvl_dict in nvl:
             names.append(nvl_dict['Name'])
-        values.append(nvl_dict['Value']) # Try to excract value from list here
+            values.append(nvl_dict['Value']) # TODO Try to excract value from list here
 
         nvl_dict = dict(zip(names, values))
         data.update(nvl_dict)
         df = pd.json_normalize(data)
-        df.to_csv('big_data.csv')
+        df.to_csv('training.csv', mode='a')
 
 def main():
     '''