Ruby: Turn bash.org quotes into a fortune file
| rubyThe following code turns XML quotes from bash.org (a popular IRC quotes server) into a fortune-cookie file.
Handy for using with ../emacs/flashcard.el and my ../emacs/flashcard-config.el, which pops up a fortune
every time I get a correct answer.
bash-org-to-fortune.rb:
require 'rss/1.0'
require 'cgi'
require 'net/http'
host = Net::HTTP.new('bash.org', 80)
if ARGV[0] then
resp, data = host.get('http://bash.org/xml/?top&below=' + ARGV[0], nil)
else
resp, data = host.get('http://bash.org/xml/?top', nil)
end
parsed = RSS::Parser.parse(data, false)
parsed.items.each { |x| puts CGI::unescapeHTML(x.description.gsub('
', "\n")); puts "%\n" }
Call like this:
ruby bash-org-to-fortune.rb > bash; strfile bash; fortune bash # or to get the top quotes with score < 1000 ruby bash-org-to-fortune.rb 1000 > bash; strfile bash; fortune bash
2 comments
John Bigboote
2008-05-01T05:22:32ZLooks like this no longer works:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss/rexmlparser.rb:24:in `_parse': This is not well formed XML (RSS::NotWellFormedError)
Missing end tag for 'hr' (got "body")
Line:
Position:
Last 80 unconsumed characters:
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss/parser.rb:163:in `parse'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss/parser.rb:78:in `parse'
from bash-org-to-fortune.rb:10
Sacha Chua
2008-05-09T05:37:01ZYes, for some reason bash.org/xml gives a Permission Denied error. Try it against http://feeds.feedburner.com... instead.