Method: StatsCollect::Locations::MySpace#getFriendsList

Defined in:
lib/StatsCollect/Locations/MySpace.rb

#getFriendsList(oStatsProxy, iMechanizeAgent) ⇒ Object

Get the friends list

Parameters

  • oStatsProxy (StatsProxy): The stats proxy to be used to populate stats

  • iMechanizeAgent (Mechanize): The agent reading pages



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# File 'lib/StatsCollect/Locations/MySpace.rb', line 229

def getFriendsList(oStatsProxy, iMechanizeAgent)
  lFriendsPage = iMechanizeAgent.get('http://www.myspace.com/my/friends/grid/page/1')
  # Keep track of the last first friend of the page, as we will detect ending page thanks to it.
  lLastFirstFriend = nil
  lFriendsMap = {}
  lIdxPage = 2
  while (lFriendsPage != nil)
    lFirstFriend = nil
    lFriendsPage.root.css('ul.myDataList li').each do |iFriendNode|
      if (iFriendNode['data-id'] != nil)
        # We have a friend node
        lFriendID = iFriendNode['data-id']
        lFriendName = nil
        iFriendNode.css('div div.vcard span.hcard a.nickname').each do |iFriendLinkNode|
          lFriendName = iFriendLinkNode['href'][1..-1]
          if (lFriendName == nil)
            log_err "Could not get friend's name for ID #{lFriendID}: #{iFriendLinkNode}"
          end
          lFriendsMap[lFriendID] = lFriendName
        end
        if (lFirstFriend == nil)
          # Check if the page has not changed
          if (lLastFirstFriend == lFriendID)
            # Finished
            break
          end
          lFirstFriend = lFriendID
        end
      end
    end
    lLastFirstFriend = lFirstFriend
    # Get next page if we did not reach the end
    if (lLastFirstFriend == nil)
      lFriendsPage = nil
    else
      lFriendsPage = iMechanizeAgent.get("http://www.myspace.com/my/friends/grid/page/#{lIdxPage}")
      lIdxPage += 1
    end
  end
  oStatsProxy.add_stat('Global', 'Friends list', lFriendsMap)
end