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How to make Ruby plurk
I’ve been on Plurk for a little while now, and I thought it would be cool to have a script that could plurk my latest activities from the commandline. So, I wrote this little Ruby script to do that :) For the people who don’t know Plurk: Plurk is a social networking / micro-blogging site similar to twitter and the like. The script is commented, so anyone with some knowledge of Ruby or even script languages in general should be able to make sense of it :)
#!/usr/bin/ruby require ‘net/http’
require ‘uri’ #not sure if plurk cares about what browser you’re using, but just in case…
USERAGENT = ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1′ class Plurk
def initialize(usr, pswd)
#set these on the Plurk.new(…) line near the bottom
@username = usr
@password = pswd #initiate connection to plurk
@http = Net::HTTP.new(‘www.plurk.com’, 80) #this should be you
path = ‘/user/’+ @username #these get filled by login
@cookie = “”
@userid = “”
#log in on plurk…
login()
end def getUserID()
#your user id is hidden in the plurk sourcecode, we’ll grab it with a handy regular expression
path = ‘/user/’+ @username
resp, data = @http.get2(path, {‘User-Agent’ => USERAGENT, ‘Cookie’ => @cookie})
if(data =~ /“user_id”:\s(\d*?)\D/)
return $1
else
puts ‘no user id found’
end
return nil
end def login()
#well, here we go then. logging in!
path = ‘/Users/login’
args = ‘nick_name=’ + @username +‘&password=’ + @password
headers = {
‘User-Agent’ => USERAGENT,
‘Referer’ => ‘http://www.plurk.com/user/’+@username,
‘Content-Type’ => ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’
} resp, data = @http.post2(path, args, headers)
#on a successful login, plurk gives you a cookie as a reward. yum!
if(resp.response['set-cookie'] != nil)
@cookie = resp.response['set-cookie']
#now that we know login went alright, get the user id
@userid = getUserID()
if(@userid == nil)
@userid = “”
end
return true
else
puts ‘login failed!’
return false
end
end def plurkThis(plurkstring)
#if getting the user id earlier failed, continuing here is useless.
#check login info, and pray plurk didnt break this in an update ;)
if(@userid == “”)
puts ’something went wrong, missing user id’
return
end
#we’ll have a look if the first word in your new plurk is one of plurk’s ‘qualifiers’
qualifiers = ‘ asks feels gives has hates hopes is likes loves needs says shares thinks wants was will wishes wonders ‘
words = plurkstring.split(/ /);
if(qualifiers =~ /#{words[0]}/)
qualifier = words[0]
content = plurkstring[words[0].size() + 1, plurkstring.size()]
else
qualifier = “:”
content = plurkstring
end
#this is all the stuff plurk needs to know to plurk your plurk.
args = ‘language=en&user_id=’ + @userid + ‘&qualifier=’ + qualifier + ‘&content=’ + URI.escape(content)
#plurk’s plurking-form is buried so deep in scripts, it is hard to figure out what goes where.
#fortunately, plurk’s mobile page is a lot simpler, and offers a straight-forward form to plurk with
path = ‘/m/’
headers = {
‘Cookie’ => @cookie,
‘User-Agent’ => USERAGENT,
‘Referer’ => ‘http://www.plurk.com/user/’+@username,
‘Content-Type’ => ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’
}
resp, data = @http.post2(path, args, headers)
#just letting you know your plurk has been plurked.
#if you don’t want the confirmation, just comment out the following line
puts ‘plurked: ‘ + @username + ‘ ‘ + qualifier + ‘ ‘ + content end
end
#set your plurk username and password on the following line
plurk = Plurk.new(‘plurkNick’, ‘plurkPass’)
#this takes all commandline arguments, glues them into a single string, and plurks it :)
plurk.plurkThis($*.join(‘ ‘))
see http://nemra.nl for a more readable (indented, syntax-highlighted) version! :)
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Contributor's Note
Blog post contains colored, indented syntax-highlighted code for better readability.
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