Differences in this Fork¶ ↑

• Uses the blip.tv json api for retrieval instead of the main API.

• Uses cookie based authentication to retrieve private videos

Right now, this is experimental to scratch and itch, but it is pretty stable.

Blip.tv Ruby Library¶ ↑

A Ruby gem for accessing the blip.tv API (wiki.blip.tv/index.php/REST_Upload_API)

Install ¶ ↑

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install kellysutton-bliptv
sudo gem install rest-client
sudo gem install mime-types

Usage¶ ↑

While the blip.tv API is extremely simple to use, sometimes it’s nice to have a wrapper library to make life even easier. The BlipTV Ruby gem is just that.

Let’s say you want to upload a video:

require 'rubygems'
require 'bliptv'

client = BlipTV::Base.new

options = {
  :username => "barack_obama",
  :password => "michellexoxo",
  :file => File.open('movie.mov'),
  :title => "Ordering Hamburgers in DC",
  :description => "I love this one burger joint, but the press keeps following me."
}

video = client.upload_video(options) #=> BlipTV::Video

The upload_video method call returns a BlipTV::Video object that you can play around with.

Or what if you wanted a list of all videos by a user? Also easy:

require 'rubygems'
require 'bliptv'

client = BlipTV::Base.new

video_list = client.find_all_videos_by_user("barack_obama")

find_all_videos_by_user will return a list of BlipTV::Video objects.

If you want to pull private videos, you will need to be authenticated to blip.

client = BlipTV::Base.new({:username => "barack_obama", :password => "michellexoxo"})
videos = client.all_videos_from_login

This will login to the site, save the cookie, and pull all videos for the current login.

More usage coming soon.

Authors¶ ↑

Main: Kelly Sutton (michaelkellysutton.com)

This fork: Brandon Harris (brandon-harris.com)

Features¶ ↑

Provides an easy way to interact with the blip.tv API in Ruby.

Special Thanks¶ ↑

This gem is extensively based on Shane Vitrana’s Viddler gem as well as the YouTubeG gem. Much of the code was simply copied and then tweaked to fit the blip.tv nomenclature of certain calls.

License ¶ ↑

Copyright © 2009 Michael Kelly Sutton

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.