quora-client 0.1 → 0.1.1

data/README.md

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 Quora client enables the communication with Quora API via REST
 interface.
 
-Actually there's no API security mechanism so interaction with API is based on authentication cookie. You should get all the Quora cookies value from you browser and use it as argument while creating the Quora client. I know this is unfriendly but I didn't get any other option right now.
+Actually there's no API security mechanism so interaction with API is based on authentication cookie.
+You can provide either a valid cookie or a valid pair user - password.
 
-You can use a local proxy, sniffer, etc to get the correct value, that
+If you want to get the cookie value, you can use a local proxy, sniffer, etc to get the correct value, that
 should be something similar to: 
 
   "m-b=<m-b-value>; m-f=<m-f-value>; m-s=<m-s-value>; ..."
@@ -27,6 +28,10 @@ Just install the gem:
 >
 > client = Quora::Client.new(cookie)
 >
+> # or...
+>
+> client = Quora::Client.new({:user => <user>, :password => <password>})
+>
 > user_data = client.get_all
 
 # Support methods

data/lib/quora.rb

@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ require 'quora/client'
 # (c) Juan de Bravo <juandebravo@gmail.com>
 #
 module Quora
-  VERSION = "0.0.1"
+  VERSION = "0.0.2"
 end

data/lib/quora/auth.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'net/http'
+require 'uri'
+require 'cgi'
+
+
+module Quora
+  module Auth
+
+    QUORA_URI = "http://www.quora.com"
+
+    def login(user, password)
+      endpoint = URI.parse(QUORA_URI)
+
+      http = Net::HTTP.new(endpoint.host, endpoint.port)
+      resp = http.get('/login/')
+      cookie = resp["set-cookie"]
+
+      # TODO: improve this rubbish
+      # get formkey value
+      start = resp.body.index("Q.formkey")
+      formkey = resp.body[start..start+200].split("\"")[1]
+
+      # get window value
+      start = resp.body.index("webnode2.windowId")
+      window = resp.body[start..start+200].split("\"")[1]
+
+      # get __vcon_json value
+      start = resp.body.index("InlineLogin")
+      vcon_json = resp.body[start..start+200]
+      start = vcon_json.index("live")
+      vcon_json = vcon_json[start..-1]
+      vcon_json = vcon_json.split("\"")[0]
+      vcon_json = vcon_json.split(":")
+      vcon_json.map! { |value| "\"#{value}\"" }
+
+      vcon_json = "[#{vcon_json.join(",")}]"
+      vcon_json = CGI::escape(vcon_json)
+
+      user = CGI::escape(user)
+      password = CGI::escape(password)
+
+      body = "json=%7B%22args%22%3A%5B%22#{user}%22%2C%22#{password}%22%2Ctrue%5D%2C%22kwargs%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&formkey=#{formkey}&window_id=#{window}&__vcon_json=#{vcon_json}&__vcon_method=do_login"
+
+      headers = {
+        "Content-Type"     => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
+        "X-Requested-With" => "XMLHttpRequest",
+        "Accept"           => "application/json, text/javascript, */*",
+        "Cookie"           => cookie,
+        "User-Agent"       => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10",
+        "Content-Length"   => body.length.to_s,
+        "Accept-Charset"   => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
+        "Accept-Language"  => "es-ES,es;q=0.8",
+        "Accept-Encoding"  => "gzip,deflate,sdch",
+        "Origin"           => "http://www.quora.com",
+        "Host"             => "www.quora.com",
+        "Referer"          => "http://www.quora.com/login/"
+      }
+
+      resp = http.post("/webnode2/server_call_POST", body, headers)
+
+      if resp.code == "200"
+        cookie
+      else
+        ""
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

data/lib/quora/client.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ require 'rubygems'
 require 'net/http'
 require 'uri'
 require 'json'
+require 'quora/auth'
 
 #
 # Quora client enables the communication with Quora API via REST interface
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ module Quora
   #
 
   class Client
+    include Quora::Auth
+
     QUORA_URI = "http://api.quora.com"
 
     RESP_PREFIX = "while(1);"
@@ -34,11 +37,25 @@ module Quora
     SUPPORTED_FIELDS = %W{inbox followers following notifs}
 
     #
-    # Initialize the client. Cookie value must be provided
+    # Initialize the client.
+    # @param [required, string|Hash] User identification. Can be either a valid cookie
+    #               previously authenticated or an Hash with :user and :password
+    #
+    # client = Client.new(valid_cookie)
+    # client = Client.new({:user => valid_user, :password => valid_password})
     #
-    def initialize(cookie)
-      if cookie.nil? or !cookie.instance_of?(String)
+    def initialize(params)
+      if params.nil?
         raise ArgumentError, "Cookie value must be provided"
+      else
+        if params.instance_of?(String)
+          cookie = params
+        elsif params.instance_of?(Hash)
+          user = params[:user]
+          password = params[:password]
+          user.nil? or password.nil? and raise ArgumentError, "user and password must be provided"
+          cookie = login(user, password)
+        end
       end
       @cookie = cookie
     end
@@ -53,7 +70,7 @@ module Quora
 
     #
     # Base method to send a request to Quora API.
-    # @param [reuired, string] supported field (or multiple fields CSV) to retrieve
+    # @param [required, string] supported field (or multiple fields CSV) to retrieve
     # @param [optional, bool] filter if field is a key in result hash, only this
     #       value is returned
     #

data/test/test_quora_client.rb

@@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ require 'quora'
 #
 class TestQuoraClient < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
+  include Quora::Auth
+
   def setup
     if ARGV.length == 0
       @cookie = "invalid value"
-    else
+    elsif ARGV.length == 1
       @cookie = ARGV[0]
+    else
+      @user     = ARGV[0]
+      @password = ARGV[1]
     end
     
   end
@@ -42,10 +47,18 @@ class TestQuoraClient < Test::Unit::TestCase
     }
   end
 
+  def test_login
+    assert_equal login(@user, @password).length > 0, true
+  end
+
   private
 
   def client
-    client = Quora::Client.new(@cookie)
+    if !@user.nil?
+      client = Quora::Client.new({:user => @user, :password => @password})
+    else
+      client = Quora::Client.new(@cookie)
+    end
   end
 end
 

metadata

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: quora-client
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  hash: 9
+  hash: 25
   prerelease: 
   segments: 
   - 0
   - 1
-  version: "0.1"
+  - 1
+  version: 0.1.1
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Juan de Bravo
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2011-01-11 00:00:00 +01:00
+date: 2011-01-17 00:00:00 +01:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ extra_rdoc_files:
 - README.md
 - LICENSE.LGPLv3
 files: 
+- lib/quora/auth.rb
 - lib/quora/client.rb
 - lib/quora.rb
 - README.md