disqus comment count widget for dashing

dashboard.erb

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="disqus_comments" data-view="Number" data-title="Comments" data-moreinfo="This Month" style="background-color:#427EB4;"></div>
  <i class="icon-comments icon-background"></i>
</li>

disqus_comment_count.rb

require 'httparty'
require 'json'

# See http://disqus.com/api/docs/
module DisqusAPI
  class Base
    include HTTParty
    format :json
    base_uri 'http://disqus.com/api/3.0'
    #if you need to debug something
    #debug_output $stderr
  end

  class Post < Base
    # See http://disqus.com/api/docs/posts/list/
    def count_since (since)

      cursor = ''
      count = 0

      begin
        url = "/posts/list.json?api_secret=#{API_SECRET}&since=#{since}&limit=100&order=asc"
        # first one doesn't have a cursor pointer
        if cursor
          url << "&cursor=#{cursor}"
        end
        result = self.class.get(url)
        json = JSON.parse(result.body)
        # if there is a cursor, get it
        if !json['cursor']['next'].nil?
          cursor = json['cursor']['next']
        end
        # count the comments
        count += json['response'].count

      end while json['cursor']['hasNext'] == true
      
      return count

    end
  end
end

class Disqus
  include DisqusAPI
end

# Secret key from http://disqus.com/api/applications/
DisqusAPI::API_SECRET = '...'

SCHEDULER.every '60m', :first_in => 10 do
  disqus = Disqus::Post.new
  #first of the month
  timestamp = Date.new(Date.today.year, Date.today.month, 1 ).to_time.to_i

  send_event('disqus_comments',   { current: disqus.count_since(timestamp) })
end