fonoapi 0.1.1

Access Freshpixl's Fono Api to gain insight into mobile phones

https://fonoapi.freshpixl.com/

The Fono Api is an API which can provide mobile device descriptions such as model, brand, cpu, gpu, dimensions, release date, and more. This package package provides a convenient wrapper around the Fono Api via the requests package.

The API was developed shakee93. This package started off as a fork of a package written by jesusperiago - I added the getlatest method to take advantage of the getlatest API method, and made a lot of under-the-hood organizational changes in order to submit this package to PyPI to make it more easily available.

Installation

pip install fonoapi

Tutorial

Before starting, make sure to generate an API token. We are going to start by creating a FonoAPI object, which we initialize with our API token in order to start interacting with the Fono Api:

from __future__ import print_function  # -- for Python 2.7

from fonoapi import FonoAPI
fon = FonoAPI('TOKEN')

Getting devices matching a specific device name

Imagine we have a specific device in mind, say the iPhone 7, that we wish to learn more about. We can use the getdevice method to return information from the API about this specific device:

device = 'iPhone 7'
iPhone_7 = fon.getdevice(device)
print(iPhone_7)

| Devices Object: mobile device data|
------------------------------------
Number of devices : 4
Input parameters : {'device': 'iPhone 7', 'position': None, 'brand': None}

The getdevice method returns a Devices object, an object that makes it easy to retrieve data from the Fono Api. Printing out the object gives us information on how many devices we retrieved information for, and what parameters were passed to getdevice.

We can output the data in the Devices object in three ways by calling the following methods on the Devices object: - dataframe : As a Pandas DataFrame, where each row corresponds to a phone - list_of_dicts : As a list of dictionaries, with one dict per phone - list_of_lists :As a list of lists, where each sublist corresponds to a phone

Not all mobile devices in the Fono Api have every possible attribute associated with them. In the case of list_of_dicts, only the attributes associated with each phone is included in each phone’s dictionary. In the cases of dataframe or list_of_lists, you may choose specific columns to include for every phone (if you don’t specify columns to include, all possible columns are included). In this case, devices with no value for a particular column will have values of numpy.nan or None, respectively.

In our case, let’s look at the attributes Brand, DeviceName, body_c for the devices returned by our API call:

print(iPhone_7.dataframe(['Brand', 'DeviceName', 'body_c']))

Brand	DeviceName	body_c
Prestigio	Prestigio MultiPhone 7500	None
Prestigio	Prestigio MultiPhone 7600 Duo	None
Apple	Apple iPhone 7 Plus	IP67 certified - dust and water resistant:raw-latex:r…
Apple	Apple iPhone 7	IP67 certified - dust and water resistant:raw-latex:r…

• There are two non-Apple devices by Prestigio in the list! The model names of the two devices begin with Prestigio MultiPhone 7500, so it’s understandable that they would show up when we searched for the string ‘iPhone 7’

• The two Prestigio devices don’t have a value for the body_c attribute, so they have NaN values for that column

In order to get rid of the Prestigio devices in our results, all we have to do is specify the brand argument to the getdevice method:

device, brand = 'iPhone 7', 'Apple'
iPhone_7 = (
    fon
    .getdevice(device, brand)
    .dataframe(['Brand', 'DeviceName', 'body_c'])
)
print(iPhone_7)

Brand	DeviceName	body_c
Apple	Apple iPhone 7 Plus	IP67 certified - dust and water resistant:raw-latex:r…
Apple	Apple iPhone 7	IP67 certified - dust and water resistant:raw-latex:r…

Getting the latest devices for a specific brand

getlatest will return information about the most recent devices for a given brand. For example, let’s imagine that we wish to get data on the lastest mobile devices from Apple:

brand = 'Apple'
latest_apples = (
    fon
    .getlatest(brand, limit=5)
    .dataframe(['DeviceName', 'announced', '_3_5mm_jack_', 'talk_time'])
)
print(latest_apples)

DeviceName	announced	3_5mm_jack	talk_time
Apple iPad Pro 12.9	2017, June	Yes	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Apple iPad Pro 10.5	2017, June	Yes	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Apple iPad 9.7	2017, March	Yes	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Apple iPhone 8	Not announced yet	No	None
Apple Watch Series 1 Sport 42mm	2016, September	No	Up to 3 h 40 min

Finally, perhaps we want to retrieve data on the most recent mobile devices for a whole host of brands … but we’re not sure if we spelled the brand names correctly. By default, when getlatest (or getdevice) don’t retrieve any results from the API, they return an empty Devices object. That empty Devices object has a value of True for its null class attribute (and a value of False for its not_null class attribute). For example:

brands = ['Apple', 'Samsung', 'LG', 'Huawei', 'SonyEricsson']
brand_devices = []
for brand in brands:
    devices = fon.getlatest(brand, limit=3)
    brand_devices.append(devices)

Could not retrieve brand information for brand SonyEricsson from the Fono API.

# Print out the Devices object for SonyEricsson
print(brand_devices[-1])

| Devices Object: mobile device data|
------------------------------------
Number of devices : 0
Input parameters : {'brand': 'SonyEricsson', 'limit': 3}

The problem here is that there is no brand SonyEricsson in the API, the correct name would have been just Ericsson. Let’s say that we want to take all of the device information that we stored in brand_devices, a list of Devices object, and create a single Pandas DataFrame:

import pandas as pd
columns = ['Brand', 'DeviceName', 'announced', 'talk_time']
brand_devices = [devices.dataframe(columns) for devices
                 in brand_devices if devices.not_null]
all_brands = pd.concat(brand_devices)
print(all_brands)

Brand	DeviceName	announced	talk_time
Apple	Apple iPad Pro 12.9	2017, June	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Apple	Apple iPad Pro 10.5	2017, June	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Apple	Apple iPad 9.7	2017, March	Up to 10 h (multimedia)
Samsung	Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017)	Not announced yet	NaN
Samsung	Samsung Galaxy C10	Not announced yet	NaN
Samsung	Samsung Galaxy J5 (2017)	2017, June	Up to 21 h (3G)
LG	LG V30	Not announced yet	NaN
LG	LG X venture	2017, May	Up to 24 h (3G)
LG	LG Stylo 3 Plus	2017, May	Up to 14 h (3G)
Huawei	Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite 8	2017, June	NaN
Huawei	Huawei Honor 9	2017, June	NaN
Huawei	Huawei nova 2 plus	2017, May	NaN

Tests

Pass a valid API token to py.test to run the package’s unit tests.

py.test --apitoken <TOKEN>