devRant-crystal

A crystal wrapper for devRant API

Heavily inspired(and in a way ported) from danillouz/devrant

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  devRant-crystal:
    github: iostreamer-X/devRant-crystal

Usage

require "devRant-crystal"
DevRant.method

Each method also has an async verion, which has 'Async' appended to the method name.

DevRant.methodAsync do |arg|
  puts arg
end

Methods

After requiring the module, the following methods can be used:

Rant Object Simple

{
  "id": 43511,
  "text": "when people think you know everything...",
  "num_upvotes": 38,
  "num_downvotes": 1,
  "score": 37,
  "created_time": 1464610498,
  "attached_image": {
    "url": "https://d1fvlyhrbsf219.cloudfront.net/devrant/rant/r_43511_uQDW4.jpg",
    "width": 600,
    "height": 300
  },
  "num_comments": 5,
  "tags": [ ],
  "vote_state": 0,
  "user_id": 15601,
  "user_username": "Mung00se",
  "user_score": 272
}

Rant Object Full

{
  "rant": {
    "id": 43511,
    "text": "when people think you know everything...",
    "num_upvotes": 39,
    "num_downvotes": 1,
    "score": 38,
    "created_time": 1464610498,
    "attached_image": {
      "url": "https://d1fvlyhrbsf219.cloudfront.net/devrant/rant/r_43511_uQDW4.jpg",
      "width": 600,
      "height": 300
    },
    "num_comments": 5,
    "tags": [ ],
    "vote_state": 0,
    "user_id": 15601,
    "user_username": "Mung00se",
    "user_score": 273
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 43529,
      "rant_id": 43511,
      "body": "But at some point we all do it.",
      "num_upvotes": 2,
      "num_downvotes": 0,
      "score": 2,
      "created_time": 1464611516,
      "vote_state": 0,
      "user_id": 505,
      "user_username": "Jumpshot44",
      "user_score": 2233
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

Profile Object

{
  "username":"coookie",
  "score":553,
  "about":"Heeeyooo! I am a dev and tho I don't have anything to rant about,  I can be funny sometimes!",
  "location":"New delhi",
  "created_time":1466694150,
  "skills":"Node.js Android",
  "github":"iostreamer-X",
  "content": {
    "content": {
      "rants": [
        {
          "id": 38898,
          "text": "",
          "num_upvotes": 35,
          "num_downvotes": 0,
          "score": 35,
          "created_time": 1464211080,
          "attached_image": {
            "url": "https://d1fvlyhrbsf219.cloudfront.net/devrant/rant/r_38898_Z93E9.gif",
            "width": 380,
            "height": 230
          },
          "num_comments": 2,
          "tags": [
            "teams",
            "integration-testing",
            "dependencies"
          ],
          "vote_state": 0,
          "user_id": 27942,
          "user_username": "danillouz",
          "user_score": 207
        }
      ],
      "upvoted": [
        {
          "id": 42586,
          "text": "My office desk",
          "num_upvotes": 65,
          "num_downvotes": 0,
          "score": 65,
          "created_time": 1464530939,
          "attached_image": {
            "url": "https://d1fvlyhrbsf219.cloudfront.net/devrant/rant/r_42586_9jWtu.jpg",
            "width": 800,
            "height": 600
          },
          "num_comments": 18,
          "tags": [
            "mydesk"
          ],
          "vote_state": 0,
          "user_id": 13541,
          "user_username": "dvlpr",
          "user_score": 104
        }
      ],
      "comments": [
        {
          "id": 41422,
          "rant_id": 41065,
          "body": "@xroad Hodor",
          "num_upvotes": 3,
          "num_downvotes": 0,
          "score": 3,
          "created_time": 1464425475,
          "vote_state": 0,
          "user_id": 27942,
          "user_username": "danillouz",
          "user_score": 207
        }
      ]
    },
    "counts": {
      "rants": 5,
      "upvoted": 37,
      "comments": 16
    }
  }
}

Examples

You can see all these functions in action here

Fetch rant with id 141356 in async manner

DevRant.getRantFromIdAsync "141356" do |rant|
  puts rant["text"]
end

Fetch 10 rants of type top and skip the first 10

DevRant.getRants({
	"sort" => 'top',
	"limit" => "10",
	"skip" => "10"
  })

Fetch 50 rants of type recent and skip 0 by using default and async behavior

DevRant.getRantsAsync({} of String => String) do |rants|
  puts rants[0]
end
}

Fetch all rants that match the search term javascript

puts DevRant.search("javascript")[0]

Fetch the profile of the devRant user with username dfox in async manner

DevRant.getProfileAsync "dfox" do |profile|
  puts profile["username"]
end

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/iostreamer-X/devRant-crystal/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• [iostreamer-X] - creator, maintainer