Class: Fourchan

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/four-chan.rb

Overview

Everything else should be methods that extract stuff from data

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(pages) ⇒ Fourchan

and an array containing the numbers of the pages to be pulled



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# File 'lib/four-chan.rb', line 14

def initialize(pages)
	@pages = pages
	@data = Hash[]
	for i in pages
		board = i[0]
		for j in i[1]
			key = [board, j]
			path = "http://boards.4chan.org/" + board.to_s + "/" + j
			doc = Nokogiri::Doc.new(open(path))
			@data[key] = doc
		end
	end
end

Instance Attribute Details

#data ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute data.



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# File 'lib/four-chan.rb', line 61

def data
  @data
end

Instance Method Details

#addPage(page) ⇒ Object

The format of page must be the same as one of the elements in the pages argument in the initialization function(2-element array containing symbol denoting board and enumerable denoting pages)



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# File 'lib/four-chan.rb', line 33

def addPage(page)
	found = false
	for i in @pages
		if i[0] == page[0]
			i[1] = (i[1] + page[1]).uniq
			found = true
			break
		end
	end
	@pages += page unless found
	board = page[0]
	for i in page[1]
		key = [board, i]
		path = "http://boards.4chan.org/" + board.to_s + "/" + i
		doc = Nokogiri::Doc.new(open(path))
		@data[key] = doc
	end
end

#postsText(board, page) ⇒ Object

Returns an array, each element being the text from one post on the given page



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# File 'lib/four-chan.rb', line 52

def postsText(board, page)
	key = [board, page]
	doc = @data[key]
	raw = doc.xpath("//blockquote")
	raw.delete do |a|
		not (a["class"].include? "post")
	end
	raw
end

#reset ⇒ Object

Resets all page data in the current object, pulling it from the web anew



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# File 'lib/four-chan.rb', line 28

def reset
	self = Fourchan.new(@pages)
end