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OpenSocial Templates + YQL

Chirag — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:32:00 +0000

Here’s a simple example showing how you can use OpenSocial Templates to easily make YQL queries:

2009 Favorites

Chirag — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:56:22 +0000

Some books I liked this year:

Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Music

Is This It by The Strokes
Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
Tum Mile by Javed Ali, K. K., Neeraj Shridhar, and Shafqat Amanat Ali

Smushing Popular Logos

Chirag — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:40:03 +0000

Site	Image	Result	Savings	%Savings
Gmail		8.74 KB	2.65 KB	23.29%
CO2Stats		3.28 KB	5.29 KB	61.73%
Twitter		5.78 KB	733 bytes	11.01%
Techcrunch		1.60 KB	1.45 KB	47.5%
Yahoo! News		1.26 KB	43 bytes	3.23%
Facebook		2.60 KB	46 bytes	1.7%
CNN		6.37 KB	1.18 KB	15%

Go buy the new Radiohead song “Harry Pa…

Chirag — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:40:23 +0000

Go buy the new Radiohead song “Harry Patch (in memory of)” here: http://download.waste.uk.com/Store/did.html

The man with two brains! http:…

Chirag — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:34:26 +0000

The man with two brains! http://www.wimp.com/twobrained/

Planet Earth Time Lapse + The …

Chirag — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:16:02 +0000

Planet Earth Time Lapse + The Album Leaf (The outer banks): http://bit.ly/zf0VC

My favorite in the authors@goo…

Chirag — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:38:25 +0000

My favorite in the authors@google series – “interactions between faith and science” http://bit.ly/IOUTt

F14 Tomcat – http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Chirag — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:09:53 +0000

F14 Tomcat – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8rZWw9HE7o (Highway to the Dangerzone)
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJNYxoBX6w (Pink Floyd, Learning to Fly)

YQL OpenSocial Client

Chirag — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:47:50 +0000

Here is a YQL open data table that allows developers to use SQL-like
SELECT syntax on top of the OpenSocial REST people API.

Note: This open data table only covers the people API and needs some
more work to be useful for developers. Also, it requires the HTTPS
protocol since private keys are being transmitted.

Example query: http://tinyurl.com/qnfnzn (Uses the guid, ck, and cks
from the sample code in the opensocial php client)

Source code for the opensocial.people open data table:

http://github.com/chirags/yql-tables/blob/d1f5d12d6e8d5e7d9424db5c869082abfcd469cd/opensocial/opensocial.people.xml

xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd" https="true">
  <meta>
    <author>Chirag Shahauthor>
  meta>
  <bindings>
    <select itemPath="" produces="XML">
      <urls>
        <url>http://sandbox.orkut.com/social/rest/people/
      urls>
      <inputs>
        <key id='method' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' const="true" default="opensocial.people" />
        <key id='ck' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='cks' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='guid' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='selector' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='count' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" default="20" />
        <key id='container' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
      inputs>
      <execute>[CDATA[
        // Include the signing library
        y.include("http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/javascript/oauth.js");
        y.include("http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/javascript/sha1.js");
 
        var base;
        if(container == 'orkut') 
            base = 'http://sandbox.orkut.com/social/rest/people/';
        else if(container == 'friendconnect')
            base = 'http://www.google.com/friendconnect/api/people/';
        else
            base =  '';
 
        var requestUrl = base + guid + '/@' + selector + '/';
        var accessor = {consumerSecret: cks};
        var message = {
            method: "GET",
            action: requestUrl,
            parameters: [
                ['oauth_signature_method', 'HMAC-SHA1'],
                ['oauth_consumer_key', ck],
                ['oauth_version', '1.0'],
                ['xoauth_requestor_id', guid],
                ['format', 'json']
            ]
        };
 
        OAuth.setTimestampAndNonce(message);
        OAuth.setParameter(message, "oauth_timestamp", OAuth.timestamp());
        OAuth.SignatureMethod.sign(message, accessor);
        var finalRequestUrl = OAuth.addToURL(message.action, message.parameters);
        response.object = y.rest(finalRequestUrl).get().response;
      ]]>execute>
    select>
  bindings>
table>

[python] Post a list of links to delicious

Chirag — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:15:34 +0000

Simple script to post a list of links to delicious, along with the related tags for that link.
Yes, I also wish delicious.com supported OAuth

import os, urllib, urllib2, time, sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
 
user = 'insert_the_user_name'
pasw = 'insert_the_password'
password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_manager.add_password(None, 'https://api.del.icio.us/', user, pasw)
auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
 
for url in open('./all_links.txt'):
    try:
        title = urllib.quote(BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url)).title.string)
        url = urllib.quote(url)
        tags = "hn_links"
        for suggestion in BeautifulSoup( urllib2.urlopen("https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/suggest?url=%s" % url).read()).findAll('popular'):
            tags = tags + "+" + suggestion.string
        print urllib2.urlopen("https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?url=%s&tags=%s&description=%s" % (url, tags, title)).read()
        time.sleep(9)
    except:
        print sys.exc_info()