Added FriendFeed posting.

.gitignore

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+config.rb

config.rb.sample

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+module TopHN
+  FRIENDFEED_NICK = 'FriendFeedNick'
+  FRIENDFEED_REMOTE_KEY = 'remotekey'
+  TRIM_USERNAME = 'YourUsername'
+  TRIM_PASSWORD = 'ThePassword'
+end

poll.rb

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 require 'nokogiri'
 require 'open-uri'
+require 'friendfeed'
 
 __DIR__ = File.expand_path( File.dirname( __FILE__ ) )
+require "#{__DIR__}/config"
 require "#{__DIR__}/model/init"
 
 module TopHN
   class Poller
     MIN_SCORE = 40
 
     def initialize
+      @friendfeed = FriendFeed::Client.new
+      @friendfeed.api_login FRIENDFEED_NICK, FRIENDFEED_REMOTE_KEY
+    end
+
+    def shortened( uri )
+      escaped_uri = CGI.escape( uri )
+      shortened_uri = nil
+
+      3.times do
+        begin
+          doc = Nokogiri::XML(
+            open( "http://api.tr.im/api/trim_url.xml?url=#{ escaped_uri }" )
+          )
+          shortened_uri = doc.css( 'trim url' ).text
+          break
+        rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => e
+          if e.message !~ /502 Bad Gateway/
+            raise e
+          end
+          sleep 2
+        end
+      end
+
+      shortened_uri
     end
 
     def poll
       @doc = Nokogiri::HTML( open( 'http://news.ycombinator.com/active' ) )
       @doc.css( 'td.title' ).each do |td|
         a = td.at( 'a' )
-        if a
-          tr = td.parent.next
-          if tr
-            subtext = tr.at( 'td.subtext' )
-            span = subtext.at( 'span' )
-            score = span.text.to_i
-
-            next  if score < MIN_SCORE
-
-            id = span[ 'id' ][ /score_(\d+)/, 1 ]
-            item = Models::Item[ id ]
-            next  if item
-
-            title = a.text.strip
-            uri_hn = subtext.css( 'a' )[ 1 ][ 'href' ]
-            uri = a[ 'href' ]
-            if uri =~ /^item\?/
-              uri = "http://news.ycombinator.com/#{uri}"
-            end
+        next  if a.nil?
+        tr = td.parent.next
+        next  if tr.nil?
+        subtext = tr.at( 'td.subtext' )
+        span = subtext.at( 'span' )
+        score = span.text.to_i
 
-            Models::Item.create(
-              id: id,
-              title: title,
-              uri: uri,
-              uri_hn: uri_hn,
-              score: score
-            )
-            puts title
+        next  if score < MIN_SCORE
+
+        id = span[ 'id' ][ /score_(\d+)/, 1 ]
+        item = Models::Item[ id ]
+        next  if item
+
+        title = a.text.strip
+        uri_hn = subtext.css( 'a' )[ 1 ][ 'href' ]
+        uri = a[ 'href' ]
+        if uri =~ /^item\?/
+          uri = "http://news.ycombinator.com/#{uri}"
+        end
+
+        shortened_uri = shortened( uri )
+        if shortened_uri
+          entry = @friendfeed.add_entry( "#{title} #{shortened_uri}" )
+          begin
+            @friendfeed.add_comment( entry[ 'id' ], "http://news.ycombinator.com/#{uri_hn}" )
+          rescue WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError => e
+            if e.response_code != "404"
+              raise e
+            end
           end
+
+          Models::Item.create(
+            id: id,
+            title: title,
+            uri: uri,
+            uri_hn: uri_hn,
+            score: score
+          )
+
+          puts title
         end
+
       end
     end
   end