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| # Remember to set the environment variable key `TWINGLY_API_KEY` | |
| require "net/http" | |
| require "time" | |
| require "rexml/document" | |
| BASE_URL = "https://api.twingly.com/blog/livefeed/api/v5/GetData" | |
| params = { | |
| timestamp: (Time.now - 3600).utc.iso8601, # Start one hour ago | |
| apikey: ENV["TWINGLY_API_KEY"], # API key to access Blog LiveFeed | |
| } | |
| loop do | |
| uri = URI(BASE_URL) | |
| uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params) | |
| Net::HTTP.get_response(uri) do |result| | |
| # No error handling code in this example, just stop | |
| break unless result.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess) | |
| document = REXML::Document.new(result.body) | |
| # Extract post URLs, print to stdout | |
| document.elements.each("twinglydata/post/url") do |url_element| | |
| puts url_element.text | |
| end | |
| # Extract helper attributes to control the polling | |
| attributes = document.root.attributes | |
| next_timestamp = attributes["nextTimestamp"].value | |
| number_of_posts = attributes["numberOfPosts"].value.to_i | |
| max_number_of_posts = attributes["maxNumberOfPosts"].value.to_i | |
| # Update timestamp for next iteration | |
| params[:timestamp] = next_timestamp | |
| # Sleep a while if there's no more documents available | |
| sleep 60 if number_of_posts < max_number_of_posts | |
| end | |
| end |
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