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An iOS SDK for the SeatGeek Web Service

seatgeek open sourced seatgeek/SGAPI
The SG Api SDK for iOS

The SeatGeek Platform provides a web service for our massive database of live events, venues, and performers. If you want to build live event information into your app or website the SeatGeek Platform is the best way to do it. Until now, if you wanted to use it in an iOS app you had to handle all of the awkward network requests and response processing yourself. With today’s release we’ve made that a whole lot easier.

Since the first release of our iOS app we’ve been gradually evolving a handful of libraries to manage communicating with our API, progressively abstracting away the messy details so we can focus on writing features. Today’s CocoaPod release is that code, in the same form as we use it ourselves. The first line in our app’s Podfile is:

pod 'SGAPI'

Fetching and Inspecting Results

The SeatGeek Platform is all about events, venues, and performers, so the same is true of the iOS SDK. Individual result items are encapsulated in SGEvent, SGVenue, and SGPerformer objects, and query result sets are fetched with SGEventSet, SGVenueSet, and SGPerformerSet objects.

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// find all 'new york mets' events
SGEventSet *events = SGEventSet.eventsSet;
events.query.search = @"new york mets";

events.onPageLoaded = ^(NSOrderedSet *results) {
    for (SGEvent *event in results) {
        NSLog(@"event: %@", event.title);
    }
};

[events fetchNextPage];

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// find all 'new york mets' events
let events = SGEventSet.eventsSet()
events.query.search = "new york mets"

events.onPageLoaded = { results in
    for i in 0..<results.count {
        let event = results.objectAtIndex(i) as SGEvent
        NSLog("%@", event.title())
    }
}

events.fetchNextPage()

Output

New York Mets at San Diego Padres
New York Mets at Seattle Mariners
... etc

Query Building

SGAPI uses SGQuery to build all its URLs. If you’d prefer to use your own data models or HTTP request classes and just want a tidy way to build API queries, then SGQuery is what you’re looking for.

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SGQuery *query = SGQuery.eventsQuery;
[query addFilter:@"taxonomies.name" value:@"sports"];
query.search = @"new york";

NSLog(@"%@", query.URL);

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let query = SGQuery.eventsQuery()
query.addFilter("taxonomies.name", value: "sports")
query.search = "new york"

NSLog("%@", query.URL())

Output

https://api.seatgeek.com/2/events?q=new+york&taxonomies.name=sports

Additionally, every item set (SGEventSet etc) has a query property which you can modify directly to add filters and parameters, change perPage and page values, etc.

Conclusion

See the documentation on GitHub and CocoaDocs for more details. If anything doesn’t make sense or could be improved, let us know. We’ll be evolving the SDK over time, and are looking forward to seeing how you make use of it!

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