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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# == Synopsis
#
# Randon Movie Title from imdb's top 250
# and adds the string "guevos" to the title
#
# == Usage
#
# rand_movie_title_guevos [OPTION]
#
# -h, --help:
# show help
#
# --count x, -n x:
# show N movies
#
# --usage, -U, -?:
# show usage
=begin
$Revision: 0.1 $
$Date: 2009-12-21 00:24 EST $
Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com>
DESCRIPTION:
USAGE: rand_movie_title_guevos.rb --help
LICENSE: GPL
=end
# defaults:
count = 1
#### --------------- do not modify below this line --------------- ####
# libs we need:
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'net/http'
require 'getoptlong'
require 'rdoc/usage'
opts = GetoptLong.new(
[ '--help', '-h', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
[ '--usage', '-U', '-?', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
[ '--count', '-n', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT ]
)
opts.each do |opt, arg|
case opt
when '--help'
RDoc::usage
when '--usage'
RDoc::usage
when '--count'
if arg == ''
raise "number missing. See --usage"
else
count = arg.to_i
end
end
end
# helpers
def imdb(command, opts={}, type=:get)
# Open an HTTP connection to imdb
site = Net::HTTP.start('www.imdb.com')
# Depending on the request type, create either
# an HTTP::Get or HTTP::Post object
case type
when :get
# Append the options to the URL
#command << "?" + opts.map{|k,v| "#{k}=#{v}" }.join('&')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(command)
end
res = site.request(req)
# Raise an exception unless IMDB
# returned an OK result
unless res.is_a? Net::HTTPOK
raise res.error!
#doc = Hpricot(res.body)
#raise "#{(doc/'request').inner_html}: #{(doc/'error').inner_html}"
end
# Return the request body
return res.body
end
# main()
cmd = {
:top => "/chart/top",
}
opts = { }
doc = nil
# Make GET query and parse the output
doc = Hpricot(imdb(cmd[:top],opts))
#<div id="main">
#<a href="/title/tt0111161/">The Shawshank Redemption</a>
movies = doc/'//div[@id="main"]'/'a'
count.times {
movie = movies[rand movies.length]
words = movie.inner_html.split(/\s+/)
redo if (words.length == 1) # it's boring to have 1 word...
words[words.size - 1] = "guevos"
puts words.join(" ") + " [#{movie.inner_html}]"
}
