Fun With Flickr Contacts

One of the fun things about the API I created with the Fleakr gem is that many of the chained associations available were provided "for free." For example, you can find the contacts for a user:

Fleakr.api_key = 'sekrit'

user = Fleakr.user('teamviget')

puts user.contacts.map(&:username)
  # =>  ["benscofield", "Brian Landau", "Brian Williams", "carolynhack", ...
  #       "ryanmoede", "Samanthatoy", "stephay22", "The Mindinator", "whafro"]

puts user.contacts.length          # => 21
puts user.contacts.first.name      # => "Ben Scofield"
puts user.contacts.last.name       # => "M. Jackson Wilkinson"
puts user.contacts.last.location   # => "Washington, DC, USA"

Not really that earth-shattering. But since a "contact" is really an instance of the User class, I can chain the calls to do some strange and useless things:

puts user.contacts.last.contacts.length # => 70
puts user.contacts.last.contacts.first.sets.last.photos.first.url
  # => "http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarongustafson/55410766/"

There are other attributes available for your contacts as well:

# Attributes available from the API
puts user.class.attributes.map(&:name)
  # => [:id, :username, :name, :location, :photos_url, :profile_url,
  #     :photos_count, :icon_server, :icon_farm, :pro, :admin]

# Additional attributes
puts user.pro?      # => true
puts user.admin?    # => false
puts user.icon_url
  # => "http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1018/buddyicons/11166619@N03.jpg"

And associations:

puts user.photos.map(&:title)[0..1]
  # => ["VigeTurf Loves Boston!", "Turf in Central Cali"]

puts user.groups.map(&:name)[0..1]
  # => ["Refresh DC", "Happy at work"]

puts user.sets.map(&:title)[0..1]
  # => ["Viget South Holiday Dinner 2008", "VigeTurf Shots"]

Use your powers for good, and beware the random strange images.