generate_opml.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'builder'
require 'feedbag'
require 'json'
require 'nokogiri'

OUTPUT_FILENAME = 'engineering_blogs.opml'
TITLE = 'Engineering Blogs'

# grab name/url pairings from README.md
readme = File.open('README.md', 'r')
contents = readme.read
matches = contents.scan(/\* (.*) (http.*)/)

# skip over blogs that aren't found
unavailable = []
fast_forwards = [
  'Baidu Research',
  'Booking.com',
  'Fynd',
  'Graphcool',
  'LinkedIn',
  'Medallia',
  'OmniTI',
  'Paperless Post',
  'Pluralsight',
  'Prolific Interactive',
  'Quora',
  'Robert Elder Software',
  'Simple',
  'SlideShare',
  'SourceClear',
  'Viget',
  'Zalando',
  'Zapier',
  'Zynga',
  'Dave Beazley',
  'Edan Kwan',
  'Grzegorz Gajos',
  'Joe Armstrong',
  'Kai Hendry',
  'LiveOverflow'
]

Struct.new('Blog', :name, :web_url, :rss_url)
blogs = []

# for each blog URL, check if rss URL exists
matches.each do |match|
  name = match[0]
  web_url = match[1]

  if fast_forwards.include?(name)
    puts "#{name}: TEMP IGNORE"
    unavailable.push(Struct::Blog.new(name, web_url, nil))
    next
  end

  # if rss_url already in existing opml file, use that; otherwise, do a lookup
  rss_url = nil
  if File.exist?(OUTPUT_FILENAME)
    xml = Nokogiri::XML(File.open(OUTPUT_FILENAME))
    existing_blog = xml.xpath("//outline[@htmlUrl='#{web_url}']").first
    if existing_blog
      rss_url = existing_blog.attr('xmlUrl')
      puts "#{name}: ALREADY HAVE"
    end
  end

  if rss_url.nil?
    puts "#{name}: GETTING"
    rss_check_url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/lookup?v=1.0&q=#{web_url}"
    uri = URI.parse(rss_check_url)
    response = JSON.parse(Net::HTTP.get(uri))
    rss_url = response['responseData']['url'] if response['responseData'] && response['responseData'].has_key?('url')

    # use Feedbag as a backup to Google Feeds Api
    if rss_url.nil?
      rss_url = Feedbag.find(web_url).first
      if rss_url.nil?
        suggested_paths = ['/rss', '/feed', '/feeds', '/atom.xml', '/feed.xml', '/rss.xml', '.atom']
        suggested_paths.each do |suggested_path|
          rss_url = Feedbag.find("#{web_url.chomp('/')}#{suggested_path}").first
          break if rss_url
        end
      end
    end
  end

  if rss_url && rss_url.length > 0
    blogs.push(Struct::Blog.new(name, web_url, rss_url))
  else
    unavailable.push(Struct::Blog.new(name, web_url, rss_url))
  end
end

blogs.sort_by { |b| b.name.capitalize }
unavailable.sort_by { |b| b.name.capitalize }

# create and write to opml file
xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(indent: 2)
xml.instruct! :xml, version: '1.0', encoding: 'UTF-8'
xml.tag!('opml', version: '1.0') do
  # head
  xml.tag!('head') do
    xml.title TITLE
  end

  # body
  xml.tag!('body') do
    xml.tag!('outline', text: TITLE, title: TITLE) do
      blogs.each do |blog|
        xml.tag!('outline', type: 'rss', text: blog.name, title: blog.name,
          xmlUrl: blog.rss_url, htmlUrl: blog.web_url)
      end
    end
  end
end

output = File.new(OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
output.write(xml.target!)
output.close

puts "DONE: #{blogs.count} written to #{OUTPUT_FILENAME}"

puts "\nUnable to find an RSS feed for the following blogs:"
puts "==================================================="
unavailable.each do |b|
  puts "#{b.name} | #{b.web_url}"
end
puts "==================================================="