#!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'nokogiri' require 'open-uri' require 'json' require 'google-search' require 'uri' # The main XKCD driver class XKCD # Get img/comic URL from xkcd # # Example: # >> XKCD.img # => "http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hell.png" # # >> XKCD.comic # => "http://xkcd.com/891/" def self.comic open('http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/').base_uri.to_s end def self.search(query) comic_id = 149 #Default to make me a sandwich if nothing can be found Google::Search::Web.new(:query => "xkcd " + query).each do |result| current_url = URI(result.uri) #Parse the search result URL if current_url.hostname == "xkcd.com" #Ignore all of URLs which are not from XKCD.com id = current_url.path.gsub(/\//, "").to_i #Checking to make sure that only a URL with a comic strip ID is taken if id != 0 comic_id = id break end end end self.get_comic(comic_id) end class << XKCD alias_method :get, :comic end =begin def self.img img = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/')).css('#comic img')[0] img_url = img.attributes["src"].value img_title = img.attributes["title"].value "#{img_title} : #{img_url}" end =end def self.img max = JSON.parse(open('http://xkcd.com/info.0.json').read)["num"] comic_num = 1 + rand(max-1) comic_num = 1 if comic_num == 404 # Avoid 404th comic ;) self.get_comic(comic_num) end def self.get_comic(id) comic = JSON.parse(open("http://xkcd.com/#{id}/info.0.json").read) "#{comic['alt']} : #{comic['img']}" end end