gender detection using igender

Author: aitoralmeida

Diff for: data/gender_detection.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Created on Mon Jun 30 09:18:11 2014
+
+@author: aitor
+"""
+
+import urllib2
+import json
+
+def get_gender(name):
+    req = urllib2.Request("http://www.i-gender.com/ai", "name=%s" % (name))
+    resp = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
+    decoder = json.JSONDecoder()
+    result = decoder.decode(resp)
+    return result['gender'], result['confidence']  
+