SHARE - How to get content from Outside.in

Outside.in is the leading provider of hyperlocal news and information. Outside.in show consumers neighborhood news and information from local bloggers, journalists and mainstream media on hundreds of trusted news sites across the Outside.in Network including CNN.com as well as www.outside.in


We can get the stories using this example. I add this on LocalNews class.

    class LocalNews < ActiveRecord::Base
   
      @key = 'f889ntmabe5mjqr9dzd2a7ce'
      @secret = 'yZM6nU4zGR'
   
      require 'open-uri'
      require 'openssl'
      require 'md5'
   
      def self.generate_key
        "dev_key=#{@key}&sig=#{MD5.new(@key + @secret + Time.now.to_i.to_s).hexdigest}"
      end
   
      def self.generate_url_from_zipcode(zipcode, oi_key, limit)
        'http://hyperlocal-api.outside.in/v1.1/zipcodes/'+zipcode.to_s+'/stories?'+oi_key+(limit.nil? ? '' : '&limit='+limit.to_s)
      end
   
      def self.get_content(zipcode, limit=20)
        oi_key = generate_key
        url = generate_url_from_zipcode(zipcode, oi_key, limit)
        open_url = open(url) rescue nil
        return '' if open_url.nil?
        json = open_url.read
   
        contents = JSON.parse(json)
      end
    end

We can get stories using command like this

    LocalNews.get_content(12345)

We can limit our stories to some number using command like this

It'll get 5 stories.

    LocalNews.get_content(12345, 5)

I use Json to parse the stories.