# Flickr Aggregator library - taken from the Typo project. require 'open-uri' require 'time' require 'rexml/document' # Example: # # flickr = Flickr.new('http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=40235412@N00&format=rss_200') # flickr.pics.each do |pic| # puts "#{pic.title} @ #{pic.link} updated at #{pic.date}" # end # class FlickrAggregation include REXML def choose(num) return pics unless pics.size > num bag = [] set = pics.dup num.times {|x| bag << set.delete_at(rand(set.size))} bag end attr_accessor :url, :pics, :link, :title, :description # This object holds given information of a picture class Picture attr_accessor :link, :title, :date, :description def initialize(attrs = {}) attrs.each do |k, v| self.send("#{k}=", v) end end def to_s title end def date=(value) @date = Time.parse(value) end def image description.scan( /(http:\/\/[0-9A-Za-z\.]*(static|photos).*?\.jpg)/ ).first.first end def thumb image.gsub( /\_m\./, '_t.' ) end def square image.gsub( /\_m\./, '_s.' ) end def medium image.gsub( /\_m\./, '_d.' ) end end # Pass the url to the RSS feed you would like to keep tabs on # by default this will request the rss from the server right away and # fill the tasks array def initialize(url, refresh = true) self.pics = [] self.url = url self.refresh if refresh end # This method lets you refresh the tasks int the tasks array # useful if you keep the object cached in memory and def refresh open(@url) do |http| parse(http.read) end end private def parse(body) xml = Document.new(body) self.pics = [] self.link = XPath.match(xml, "//channel/link/text()").to_s self.title = XPath.match(xml, "//channel/title/text()").to_s self.description = XPath.match(xml, "//channel/description/text()").to_s XPath.each(xml, "//item/") do |elem| picture = Picture.new picture.title = XPath.match(elem, "title/text()").to_s picture.date = XPath.match(elem, "pubDate/text()").to_s picture.link = XPath.match(elem, "link/text()").to_s picture.description = XPath.match(elem, "description/text()").to_s pics << picture end end end