Playing with identi.ca API using node.js

identica-api-client-node.js

var sys = require('sys'),
    http = require('http');

var identica = {
  host: 'identi.ca',
  root: '/api',
  search: '/search.json?q=',
  statuses: '/statuses',
  publicTimeline: function() {
    return( this.root + this.statuses + "/public_timeline.json" );
  },
  userTimeline: function (screen_name) {
    return( this.root + this.statuses + "/user_timeline/" + screen_name + ".json" );
  }
}

var identicaClient = http.createClient( 80, identica.host );
var request = identicaClient.request( "GET", identica.userTimeline('kusor'), { "host": identica.host } );
request.finish( function ( response ) {
  var body = '';
  // sys.puts( "STATUS: "  + response.statusCode );
  // TODO: Hanle eTag & Last-Modified. Store it somewhere.
  // sys.puts( "HEADERS: " + JSON.stringify(response.headers) );
  response.setBodyEncoding( "utf8" );
  response.addListener( "body", function (chunk) {
    body += chunk;
  });
  response.addListener( "complete", function (){
    if (response.statusCode == 200) {
      // statuses = JSON.stringify(body);
      // sys.puts(statuses);
      statuses = JSON.parse(body);
      for ( var i = (statuses.length - 1); i >= 0; i-- ) {
        status = statuses[i];
        sys.puts( 
          status['user']['screen_name'] + ' (' + status['user']['name'] + "):\n" +
          status['text'] + "\n" +
          "\n-----\n"
        );
      }
    } else {
      sys.puts( "identi.ca API failed with status " + response.statusCode );
    }
  });
});