Simple commandlinefu.com API functions with Julia

commandlinefu.jl

# Quick wrapper for the awesome commandlinefu.com API
# http://www.commandlinefu.com/site/api
using Requests
using JSON

BASE_URL = "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/"

function bestfu()
    q = BASE_URL * "browse/sort-by-votes/json"
    return JSON.parse(IOBuffer(Requests.get(q).data))
end

function searchfu(query::String)
    query_base64 = base64encode(query)
    query = replace(query, " ", "%20")
    q = BASE_URL * "matching/" * query * "/" * query_base64 * "/json"
    return JSON.parse(IOBuffer(Requests.get(q).data))
end

## Examples
searchfu("grep")
searchfu("sort files by size")
bestfu()