Use the del.icio.us API via HTTPS from Ruby

jswizard (JavaScript Wizard) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:37:15 GMT

Found at http://www.juretta.com/log/2006/08/13/ruby_net_http_and_open-uri/



require 'net/https'

require "rexml/document"



username = "" # your del.icio.us username

password = "" # your del.icio.us password



resp = href = "";

begin      

  http = Net::HTTP.new("api.del.icio.us", 443)

  http.use_ssl = true

  http.start do |http|

    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/v1/tags/get", {"User-Agent" => 

        "juretta.com RubyLicious 0.2"})

    req.basic_auth(username, password)

    response = http.request(req)

    resp = response.body

  end     

  #  XML Document

  doc = REXML::Document.new(resp)    

  # iterate over each element 

  doc.root.elements.each do |elem|

    print elem.attributes['tag']  + " -> " + elem.attributes['count'] + "\n"

  end

  

rescue SocketError

  raise "Host " + host + " nicht erreichbar"

rescue REXML::ParseException => e

  print "error parsing XML " + e.to_s

end

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Use the del.icio.us API via HTTPS from Ruby