Hypem Ruby Gem travis

Introduction

This is an unoffical Ruby gem for the Hype Machine read-only API. It currently only supports Ruby 1.9.x.

Usage

Playlist

The Playlist object is the root of the Hypem API. Each Playlist has an array of Hypem::Track's accessed via the tracks attribute. Pagination is supported with the .next_page and .prev_page, page(num) methods.

Querying

General playlists can be accessed using the following methods. The last argument to each method is the desired page (default 1).

  • Hypem.playlist.artist('artist_name') --- latest tracks from a given artist

  • Hypem.playlist.blog('blog_name') --- latest tracks from a given blog name

  • Hypem.playlist.search('query_string') --- tracks matching string

  • Hypem.playlist.tags(['tag_name','electro','indie']) --- tracks matching tags. The API warns against combining too many different tags

  • Hypem.playlist.popular --- the most popular tracks over a certain timeframe or set. It accepts the following filters:

    • '3day' default --- most popular over last 3 days
    • :lastweek --- most popular over last week
    • :noremix --- most popular non-remixed tracks over last 3 days
    • :artists --- most popular artists' tracks over last 3 days
    • :twitter --- most popular tweeted tracks over last 3 days

  • Hypem.playlist.latest --- the latest posted tracks. It accepts the following filters:

    • :all default --- all tracks, regardless of repost status
    • :fresh --- only first posted tracks
    • :noremix --- only non-remixed tracks
    • :remix --- only remixed tracks

Misc.

  • Hypem.playlist.new_from_tracks([hypem_track1,hypem_track2]) --- create a custom playlist from an array of Hypem::Track's

User

Users can be accessed via Hypem.user('username') and have various methods:

General Methods

  • user.get_profile updates the user object with the following attributes: full_name, location, image_url, followed_users_count, followed_items_count, followed_sites_blog, and followed_queries_count

  • user.friends retrieves the user's friends as an array of Hypem::User objects

  • user.favorite_blogs retrieves the user's favorite blogs as an array of Hypem::Blog objects

Playlist Methods

Hypem::User offers several methods for accessing a particular user's personalized playlists:

  • user.loved_playlist --- a user's loved tracks

  • user.obsessed_playlist --- a user's obsessed tracks

  • user.feed_playlist --- a user's tracks from all followed entities

  • user.friends_favorites_playlist --- a user's friends' favorited tracks

  • user.friends_history_playlist --- tracks from a user's friends' listening histories

Blog

Blogs can be retrieved using a blog's unique id via Hypem.blog(1234) and have the following methods:

  • blog.get_info -- retrieves extended information about a blog and sets blog_image, blog_image_small, first_posted, followers, last_posted, site_name, site_url, total_tracks, and id

Track

All Playlist objects have a tracks attribute containing an array of Hypem::Track's. A sample object inspect is as follows:

  #<Hypem::Track
    artist="Hot Chip"
    date_loved=1332109580
    date_posted=1332252311
    description="O Hot Chip está de volta com um novo álbum, In Our Heads, que vai ser lançado oficialmente em junho, mas já conta com seu primeiro vídeo, “Flutes”, disponível para visualização. A faixa serve de abertura para o novo álbum dos já bem sucedidos garotos, e p"
    itunes_link="http://hypem.com/go/itunes_search/Hot%20Chip"
    loved_count=4912
    media_id="1jsw9"
    post_id=1753700
    post_url="http://www.ohmyrock.net/2012/03/hot-chip-flutes/"
    posted_count=14
    site_id=14635
    sitename="Oh My Rock"
    thumb_url="http://static-ak.hypem.net/images/albumart4.gif"
    thumb_url_large="http://static-ak.hypem.net/images/blog_images/14635.png"
    time=425
    title="Flutes">

TODO

  • Blogs with given tag
  • Single track info
  • Authenticated Requests
  • Favorite a track
  • Log Playback