biostars-api
A wrapper for the biostars.org public API.
Biostars focuses on bioinformatics, computational genomics and biological data analysis.
Requirements
- httparty
- json
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'biostars-api'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install biostars-api
Examples
# Retrieve the latest site traffic stats
traffic = Biostars::API.traffic
p traffic.post_views_last_60_min # number of post views over the last hour
# Retrieve activity for the last 24 hours.
latest_info = Biostars::API::Stats.latest
p latest_info.new_users # Arary of user ids [1,2,3..10]
p latest_info.comments # Number of comments
# Retrieve an Array of the lastest users
latest_users = latest_info.all_users
# Get a specific Users information
user = Biostars::API::Stats.User.find(latest_users.first.id)
p user.id # User id
p user.name # Username
# The same can be achieved for Posts and Votes
latest_posts = latest_info.all_posts
latest_votes = latest_info.all_votesDocumentation
- API - https://www.biostars.org/info/api/
- Rubydoc - http://www.rubydoc.info/github/arian-amador/biostars-api/master
- GitHub - https://github.com/arian-amador/biostars-api/
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/arian-amador/biostars-api/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request