LittleFish

This gem is a little tool for pulling infomation from boston bigpicture, which is a news site with beautiful photos. The reutrn info format is a data sructure looks like:

bp_info{
  :total_desc => "description for the whole theme of all photos"
  :image_list => [
    image{
      :url => url
      :desc => "description for the single photo"
    }
  ]#list of photos
}

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'little_fish'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install little_fish

Usage

There are two use scenarios

  1. command line application usually you can just type: little_fish
    for downdoading: little_fish -d more details plz dont be hesitated to call for help little_fish --help

  2. usage in your application 

require 'little_fish'
fisher = LittleFish::Fisher.new do |f|
  f.last_nth_item = 0 #0 for latest post, and 1 means the last one, 2 means the one before last post, eg.
  f.dumpfile = 'temp.txt'#if not assigned, filename will be named by datetime. if assigned 'no', 'none', or 'false', it wont dump out any file
end
info = fisher.pull

urls = info[:images].map{|e| e[:url]} #to get the urls

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request