NAME

WebService::Idonethis - WebScraping pseudo-API for iDoneThis

VERSION

version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

    use WebService::Idonethis;

    my $idt = WebService::Idonethis->new(
        user => 'someuser',
        pass => 'somepass',
    );

    my $dones = $idt->get_day("2012-01-01");

    foreach my $item (@$dones) {
        say "* $item->{text}";
    }

    # Get items done today

    my $dones = $idt->get_today;

    # Submit a new done item.

    $idt->set_done(text => "Drank ALL the coffee!");

DESCRIPTION

This is an extremely bare-bones wrapper around the idonethis.com website that allows retrieving of what was done on a particular day. It's only been tested with personal calendars. Patches are extremely welcome.

This code was motivated by idonethis.com's most excellent (but now defunct) memory service, which would send reminders as to what one was doing a year ago by email.

The idonethis-memories command included in this distribution is a simple proof-of-concept that reimplements this service, and is suitable for running as a cron job.

The idone command included with this distribution allows you to submit new done items from the command line.

Patches are extremely welcome. https://github.com/pfenwick/idonethis-perl

METHODS

get_day

    my $dones = $idt->get_day("2012-01-01");

Gets the data for a given day. An array will be returned which is a conversation from the JSON data structure used by idonethis. The structure at the time of writing looks like this:

    [
        {
            owner => 'some_user',
            avatar_url => '/site_media/blahblah/foo.png',
            modified => '2012-01-01T15:22:33.12345',
            calendar => {
                short_name => 'some_short_name', # usually owner name
                name => 'personal',
                type => 'PERSONAL',
            },
            created => '2012-01-01T15:22:33.12345',
            done_date => '2012-01-01',
            text => 'Wrote code to frobinate the foobar',
            nicest_name => 'some_user',
            type => 'dailydone',
            id => 12345
        },
        ...
    ]

get_today

    my $dones = $idt->get_today;

This is a convenience method that calls get_day using the current (localtime) date as an argument.

set_done

    $idt->set_done( text => "Installed WebService::Idonethis" );
    $idt->set_done( date => '2013-01-01', text => "Drank coffee." );

Submits a done item to idonethis.com. The date field is optional, but the text field is mandatory. The current date (localtime) will be used if no date is specified.

Returns nothing on success. Throws an exception on failure.

SEE ALSO

http://privacygeek.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/reimplementing-idonethis-memory-service.html

AUTHOR

Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Paul Fenwick.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm WebService::Idonethis

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WebService::Idonethis