adding login

app.js

@@ -4,52 +4,91 @@
  * Node-Reddit
  *
  * A simple CLI app that reads in Reddit's frontpage and colorizes it
- *
- * by Kamran Ayub
+ * with optional login info passed in at the command line 
+ * username is passed with -u, --user, or first arg
+ * passwd is passed with -p, --passwd, or second arg
+ * 
+ * by Kamran Ayub and Jacob Lyles
  * License: WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/)
  * Attribution is cool but not required
  ********************/
 
 var cli     = require('cli'),
     http    = require('http'),
     request = require('request'),
+    argv    = require('optimist').argv,
     colors  = require('colors');
 
+var cookie, uh;
+var USER = argv.u || argv.user || argv._[0];
+var PASSWD = argv.p || argv.passwd || argv._[1];
+
+
 cli.main(function (args, options) {
   console.log("***********".rainbow);
   console.log("Node Reddit".cyan);
   console.log("***********\n\n".rainbow);
 
-  request('http://reddit.com/.json', function (err, res, body) {
-    if (!err && res.statusCode === 200) {
-      var reddit  = JSON.parse(body),
-          stories = reddit.data.children.map(function (s) { 
-                      return s.data; 
-                    });
-
-      // Descending score
-      stories.sort(function (a, b) { return b.score - a.score; });
-
-      stories.forEach(function (story) {
-        var row = "",
-          title = story.title.length > 100
-                ? story.title.substr(0, 100) + "..." 
-                : story.title;
-
-        // Build row
-        // [score] [title] [comments] [subreddit]
-        // This sucks
-        row += story.score.toString().green + "\t";
-        row += title.bold
-        row += " (" + story.domain + ")";
-        row += (" /r/" + story.subreddit).cyan;
-        row += "\n\t";
-        row += story.author.grey;     
-        row += " " + (story.num_comments + " comments").italic.yellow;
-        row += "\n";
-
-        console.log(row);
-      });
-    }
-  });
-});
+  var apiOptions = {
+    uri: "http://www.reddit.com/api/login/" + USER,
+    user: USER,
+    headers: {
+      Host: "www.reddit.com",
+      Connection: "Keep-Alive"
+    },
+    form:{
+      user: USER,
+      passwd: PASSWD,
+      api_type: "json" 
+    },
+    followAllRedirects: true
+  };
+
+
+  request.post(apiOptions, function(err, res, body){
+    var data = JSON.parse(body);
+    cookie = data.cookie;
+    uh = data.modhash;
+    apiOptions = {
+      uri: 'http://reddit.com/.json',
+      headers: {
+        Cookie: cookie
+      }
+    };
+
+    request(apiOptions, function (err, res, body) {
+      if (!err && res.statusCode === 200) {
+        var reddit  = JSON.parse(body),
+            stories = reddit.data.children.map(function (s) { 
+                        return s.data; 
+                      });
+
+        // Descending score
+        stories.sort(function (a, b) { return b.score - a.score; });
+
+        stories.forEach(function (story) {
+          var row = "",
+            title = story.title.length > 100
+                  ? story.title.substr(0, 100) + "..." 
+                  : story.title;
+
+          // Build row
+          // [score] [title] [comments] [subreddit]
+          // This sucks
+          row += story.score.toString().green + "\t";
+          row += title.bold
+          row += " (" + story.domain + ")";
+          row += (" /r/" + story.subreddit).cyan;
+          row += "\n\t";
+          row += story.author.grey;     
+          row += " " + (story.num_comments + " comments").italic.yellow;
+          row += "\n";
+
+          console.log(row);
+        });
+      }
+    });
+
+  });  
+});
+