Use

>>> from intelurls import check_mapurl, parse_mapurl, parse_natural
>>> from pprint import pprint

An Ingress Intel URL:

>>> check_mapurl("this is a string with a url in it https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=37.821523,-122.377385&z=17 and more test")
'https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=37.821523,-122.377385&z=17'

A Google Maps URL with a caption:

>>> pprint(parse_mapurl("https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.765727,-122.431961&cid=10889150637731333995&q=Beck's%20Motor%20Lodge"))
{'caption': "Beck's Motor Lodge",
 'latlng': [37.765727, -122.431961],
 'name': 'map_@37.765727,-122.431961'}

A Google Maps ShortURL:

>>> pprint(parse_mapurl("http://goo.gl/maps/r6T6a"))
{'caption': '',
 'latlng': [45.0215057, 14.6293757],
 'name': 'map_@45.0215057,14.6293757'}

A natural language location:

>>> pprint(parse_natural("San Francisco, CA"))
{'caption': 'San Francisco, CA, USA',
 'latlng': [37.7749295, -122.4194155],
 'name': 'map_@37.7749295,-122.4194155_z13',
 'zoom': 13}

For a full list of everything we can parse, look at tests/gentest.py, this list is fairly extensive.

Testing

There are so many combinations of URLs, that a regression test jig was created. Most of the code is self-contained, however the natural language location and URLs that need expansion or page scraping need to interact with a third party service (typically the Google Maps API) and that data has been known to change over time.

A failed test isn’t a reason to not install the module.

valid.out is correct at the time of this publication, but may get out of date if the third party services change or move map items. If unit test fails, it’s best to examine -why- it failed to see if it is an actual bug or just a change by a third party. If you need to, you may re-create valid.out with gentest.py

ChangeLog

0.0.2: README.rst formatting 0.0.1: Original publication