Getting number of votes and coolness from Ludum Dare ratings page

stats.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU

# if you don't want to provide your username each time
# as an argument, you can set it here:
user = "" # <-- your username

# default stat to compare: votes or coolness
compare = "votes" # or "coolness"

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require 'open-uri'

user = ARGV.shift if user.empty?

if not user
  puts
  puts "usage: #{$0} username [votes|coolness]"
  puts
  exit
end

compare = ARGV.shift if not ARGV.empty?

puts
puts "Getting number of votes and coolness from Ludum Dare ratings page"
puts "and calculating current position based on the \"#{compare}\" stat."
puts

statsURL = "http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=misc_links"
content = open(statsURL).read

users = {}
content.scan(/a><td>(.+?)<td><a.+?<td>(\d+)<td>(\d+)<t/m).each do |u,v,c|
  users[u] = { :votes => v, :coolness =>c }
end

if not users[user]
  puts "user \"#{user}\" not found"
  puts
  exit
end

t = compare == "votes" ? :votes : :coolness
sorted = users.sort do |u1,u2|
  u1[1][t].to_i <=> u2[1][t].to_i
end
sorted.reverse!

pos = 1
sorted.each do |u,vc|
  puts if u == user
  puts "%3d. %s (%d:%d)" % [pos, u, vc[:votes], vc[:coolness]]
  break if u == user
  pos += 1
end

puts