Ruby Client for Amazon Alexa Site Thumbnail (AST) Service

peter (Peter Cooperx) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:31:27 GMT

It's scrappy, but it does the job.



require 'cgi'

require 'openssl'

require 'base64'

require 'open-uri'



access_id = 'YOUR_ACCESS_ID'

secret_id = 'YOUR_SECRET_ID'



source_url = ARGV.first



timestamp = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")

sig = Base64.encode64(OpenSSL::HMAC::digest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('SHA1'), secret_id, 'Thumbnail' + timestamp)).strip



url = "http://ast.amazonaws.com/Xino?Action=Thumbnail&AWSAccessKeyId=" + access_id

url << "&Signature=" + CGI.escape(sig)

url << "&Timestamp=" + CGI.escape(timestamp)

url << "&Url=" +  source_url



begin

  doc = open(url).read

rescue

  puts "Could not access AWS"

  exit

end



m = doc.match(/\]+exists=\"true\"\>(.+?)\<\//i)



if m && m[1]

  thumb_url = m[1]

  thumb_url.gsub!(/\&/, '&')

  File.open("#{source_url}.jpg", "w") { |f| f.write open(thumb_url).read }

  puts "Saved to #{source_url}.jpg"

elsif m && m.match(/exists=\"false\"/)

  puts "No thumbnail for #{source_url}"

else

  puts "Error"

end

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Ruby Client for Amazon Alexa Site Thumbnail (AST) Service