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October 9, 2013 23:10
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This ruby script fetches all articles from an issue of the excellent objc.io periodical and send them to Instapaper.
This script should be automated so it runs automatically when a new issue is available. Perhaps parsing the RSS?
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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby | |
# fetches the content of an objc.io issue and send it to Instapaper | |
# Stephan Burlot, Coriolis Technologies, http://www.coriolis.ch | |
# First version Oct 10, 2013 | |
# ruby was installed via homebrew, so the path to ruby is /usr/local/bin | |
# you may need to change it to the actual path of your ruby installation. | |
require 'nokogiri' | |
require 'open-uri' | |
require 'openssl' | |
# this is the issue number | |
issue = 5 | |
# set these to your username and your password | |
user = "username" | |
password = "password" | |
# fetch the editorial page | |
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.objc.io/issue-' + issue.to_s + '/editorial.html')) | |
# look for the content's urls | |
doc.xpath('//div[@class="issue-cross-links"]').each do | section | | |
begin | |
section.xpath('.//a[@href]').each do | link | | |
puts "Found article: " + link.content.to_s + " (" + link['href'].to_s + ")" | |
# set a custom title for the article | |
title = 'objc.io #' + issue.to_s + ' - ' + link.content.to_s | |
url = 'https://www.instapaper.com/api/add?title' + title + \ | |
"&url=http://objc.io" + link['href'].to_s | |
#puts "url : " + url | |
begin | |
instapaper = open(URI::encode(url), { | |
:http_basic_authentication=>[user, password], | |
:ssl_verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE}) | |
# catch errors | |
rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => status_code | |
the_status = status_code.io.status[0] | |
# status_code.message is the numeric code and text in a string | |
puts "Instapaper returned a bad status code: #{status_code.message}" | |
exit | |
end | |
end | |
rescue NoMethodError | |
puts "issue-cross-links not found" | |
exit | |
end | |
end | |
puts "End" |
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