Discodactyl¶ ↑

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Discodactyl is an experimental toolkit for XRD service discovery documents and related protocols. It includes implementations of XRD URITemplate Link-Patterns, basic site-meta support, HTTP Link header parsing, acct: URIs and a webfinger poking stick.

• Webfinger client.

• XRD parsing, querying and modification.

• LRDD discovery.

• HTTP Link header parsing.

• acct: URI parsing.

• Minimal URI Template parsing and application.

• JRD parsing, querying.

• Probably filled with bugs. Don’t forget your bug powder.

• Yahoo ‘webfinger’ doesn’t work. Sadly, they need to update their format to the most recent one.

For command-line fiends:

$ webfinger bradfitz@gmail.com
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz
Profile data: http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/115863474911002159675/
describedby: http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz
Contacts: http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/
Status: Hah... about 4 hours ago

For ruby mongers:

# All of WebFinger! In very few, if long and pointy, lines!
require 'discodactyl'

acct = URI.parse 'acct:bradfitz@gmail.com'

webfinger_uris = Discodactyl::ResourceDiscovery.get_uris_by_rel(acct, 'lrdd', 'uri' => acct)
disco_doc = Discodactyl::XRD::Document.parse(open(webfinger_uris.first))

• nokogiri 1.4

• actionpack 3.0

• feedzirra 0.0.23

• prism 0.1

See the INSTALL file for details.

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