Here’s a Ruby method to automatically submit posts (with tags) to StumbleUpon:
def to_stumble_upon(options = {})
# fields
username = options[:username]
password = options[:password]
title = options[:title]
url = options[:url]
description = options[:description]
tags = options[:tags]
# crawler
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; ru-ru) AppleWebKit/533.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10"
# login
page = agent.get("http://www.stumbleupon.com/")
form = page.form_with(:action => "/login.php")
form["username"] = username
form["password"] = password
form.submit
# basic info
page = agent.get("http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=#{url}&title=#{title}")
form = page.forms.first
form["topic"] = title
form["comment"] = description
form.radiobuttons_with(:name => "sfw").first.check
page = agent.submit(form)
# add tags
page = agent.get("http://www.stumbleupon.com/favorites/")
# get key properties
token = page.parser.css("div#wrapperContent").first["class"]
var = page.parser.css("li.listLi var").first
comment_id = var["id"]
public_id = var["class"]
# post to hidden api
url = "http://www.stumbleupon.com/ajax/edit/comment"
params = {
"syndicate_fb" =>"syndicate_fb",
"title" => title,
"token" => token,
"sticky_post" => "0",
"review" => description,
"tags" => tags.join(", "),
"publicid" => public_id,
"syndicate_tw" => "syndicate_tw",
"commentid" => comment_id,
"keep_date" => "1"
}
page = agent.post(url, params)
endYou can call that like this:
to_stumble_upon(
:username => "your-username",
:password => "your-password",
:title => "A Title",
:description => "A longer description",
:tags => ["usability", "ruby", "web services", "open source"],
:url => "http://your-site.com/a-path"
)I figured out that ajax call to /ajax/edit/comment by checking in the “Net” menu in Firebug and copy/pasting the request with params. I was able to get a successful response with jQuery in Firebug that looks like this:
$.ajax({
type:"POST",
url:"http://www.stumbleupon.com/ajax/edit/comment",
data:{"syndicate_fb":"syndicate_fb", "title":"title", "token":"asjdflakjfjafdlas", "review":"Imgur is a great service to host images. It's free, simple, and it gives you neat analytics. The only problem is, the Imgur interface uses cookies to associate images with a user, but the API does not. This shows you how to make the API work the same.", "sticky_post":"0", "tags":"usability, ruby, web services, open source", "publicid":"15ylUi", "commentid":"44418172", "syndicate_tw":"syndicate_tw", "keep_date":"1"},
success:function(data) { alert(data) },
error:function(data) { alert(data) }
});And the response looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<p>
{"commentid":"44418293","review":"Imgur is a great service to host images. It's free, simple, and it gives you neat analytics. The only problem is, the Imgur interface uses cookies to associate images with a user, but the API does not. This shows you how to make the API work the same.","success":true}
</p>
</body>
</html>Super simple.