cz_newdrafts script - licensed under the BSD license

gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "open-uri"
require "bitly"
require "active_support"
require "nokogiri"
require "twitter_oauth"

# set up our bitly shortener
Bitly.use_api_version_3
shortener = Bitly.new("tommorris", "SECRET")

# pull in consent data
$consent = YAML.load_file("/home/tom/.cz_nd_twitter.yaml")
def grab_author_str(name)
  filtered_consent = $consent.select {|i| i[:name] == name }
  return filtered_consent.first[:twitter] if filtered_consent.first[:twitter] != nil
  return filtered_consent.first[:name] if filtered_consent.first
  return nil
end

# set up twitter connection
client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new(:consumer_key => "SECRET",  
    :consumer_secret => "SECRET",
    :token => "SECRET", 
    :secret => "SECRET")

# parse XML
doc = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:NewPages&feed=rss&namespace=0"))
items = doc.xpath("//item").map do |i|
  {
    :title => i.xpath("title")[0].text,
    :author => i.xpath("dc:creator")[0].text,
    :link => i.xpath("link")[0].text,
    :date => Time.parse(i.xpath("pubDate")[0].text),
    :lemma => i.xpath("description").text["BASEPAGENAME"] ? true : false 
  }
end

if ARGV.member?("--no-lemmas")
  items = items.select {|i| i[:lemma] != true }
end   

# retrieve only recent posts 
items = items.select {|i| i[:date] >= (10.minutes.ago - 15.seconds)}
items = items.select do |i|
  i unless (i[:title] =~ /^.*\/Definition$/ || i[:title] =~ /^.*\/Related Articles$/ || i[:title] =~ /\/Catalogs$/ || i[:title] =~ /\/Bibliography$/ || i[:title] =~ /\/Addendum$/ || i[:title] =~ /^.*\/External Links$/)
end

# shorten URLs and replace author strings with Twitter URLs - this will get replaced with a call out to JSON file
items.map! do |i|
  i[:link] = shortener.shorten(i[:link], :history => 1).short_url
  i[:author] = grab_author_str(i[:author])
  i
end

# send it to Twitter or debug with --debug
items.each do |i|
  output = i[:title] + " " + i[:link]
  output += " by " + i[:author] unless i[:author].nil?
  if ARGV.member?("--debug")
    puts output
  else
    client.update output
  end
end