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Created February 28, 2014 04:47
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Grab the last 10 pages of journals from the Kiva api and spit out an HTML page with them.
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journal_eater.rb
require 'httparty'
file = File.new("journals " + Time.now.to_s + ".html", "w")
file.puts '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Journals</title><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"><script src="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script></head><body><div class="container">'
puts "making html file"
url = "http://api.kivaws.org/v1/journal_entries/search.json?newest&page="
page = 0
10.times do
page += 1
journal_entries = HTTParty.get(url + page.to_s)["journal_entries"]
journal_entries.each do |journal|
puts "getting journal " + journal['id'].to_s
journal_entry = "<div>"
journal_entry += "<a href='http://www.kiva.org/updates/loan/#{journal['id'].to_s}' target='_blank'>ID #{journal['id'].to_s}</a>"
journal_entry += "<h4>#{journal["subject"]}</h4>"
journal_entry += "<p>#{journal["body"]}</p>"
journal_entry += "<p>Published #{journal["date"].to_s}</p>"
journal_entry += "<p>Reco count #{journal["recommendation_count"].to_s} </p>"
journal_entry += "<p>Comment count #{journal["comment_count"].to_s}</p>"
journal_entry += "<p>Author: #{journal["author"]}</p>"
journal_entry += "</div>"
file.puts journal_entry
end
sleep 10
end
file.puts "</div></body></html>"
puts "saving file"
file.close
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