require 'open-uri' require 'time' require 'rexml/document' class Delicious include REXML attr_accessor :url, :items, :link, :title, :days # This object holds given information of an item class DeliciousItem < Struct.new(:link, :title, :description, :description_link, :date) def to_s; title 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 items array def initialize(url, refresh = true) self.items = [] self.url = url self.days = {} self.refresh if refresh end # This method lets you refresh the items in the items 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.items = [] self.link = XPath.match(xml, "//channel/link/text()").first.value rescue "" self.title = XPath.match(xml, "//channel/title/text()").first.value rescue "" XPath.each(xml, "//item/") do |elem| item = DeliciousItem.new item.title = XPath.match(elem, "title/text()").first.value rescue "" item.link = XPath.match(elem, "link/text()").first.value rescue "" item.description = XPath.match(elem, "description/text()").first.value rescue "" item.date = Time.mktime(*ParseDate.parsedate(XPath.match(elem, "dc:date/text()").first.value)) rescue Time.now item.description_link = item.description item.description.gsub!(/<\/?a\b.*?>/, "") # remove all tags items << item end self.items = items.sort_by { |item| item.date }.reverse end end