automates the album cover game

robot_rock.rb

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# 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
# The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
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# 2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
# The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
#
# 3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
# The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.


%w[rubygems nokogiri open-uri rmagick].each{|gem| require gem}

# Wikipedia wants a nice a user agent, otherwise it'll 403
user_agent      = "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}"

band_name_url   = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random'
band_name_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(band_name_url, 'User-Agent' => user_agent))

album_title_url = 'http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3'
album_title_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(album_title_url, 'User-Agent' => user_agent))

album_cover_url = 'http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/'
album_cover_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(album_cover_url, 'User-Agent' => user_agent))

# The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
band_name = band_name_page.css('#firstHeading').first.content 


# The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
album_title =  album_title_page.css('dt.quote').last.content.split(' ')[-4..-1].join(' ')

# The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
thumbnail_url = album_cover_page.css('.Photo img')[2]['src']
# hack flickr url to get a larger image
# eg.
# http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5011367066_c1d297f51f_m.jpg
# http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5011367066_c1d297f51f_z.jpg
album_cover_url = thumbnail_url.sub('m.jpg', 'z.jpg')

# stash the flickr pic in a file
album_cover = open('cover.jpg', 'wb')
album_cover.write(open(album_cover_url).read)
album_cover.close

album_cover = Magick::ImageList.new('cover.jpg')
album_cover.resize_to_fill!(400, 400)

# write stuff on the album cover.
# I don't know why the pen is named gc
gc = Magick::Draw.new
gc.annotate(album_cover, 0,0,0,-40, band_name) {
  self.fill        = 'white'
  self.stroke      = 'black'
  self.pointsize   = 24
  self.font_weight = Magick::BoldWeight
  self.gravity     = Magick::CenterGravity
}
gc.annotate(album_cover, 0,0,0,10, album_title) {
  self.fill        = 'white'
  self.stroke      = 'gray50'
  self.pointsize   = 14
  self.font_weight = Magick::BoldWeight
  self.gravity     = Magick::CenterGravity
}

# display the cover on the screen (will use X on your mac or linus)
#album_cover.display

# write the cover to disk
album_cover.write('cover.jpg')