require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'

# <@tango_> unfo-, two notes about your plugin
# <@tango_> (1) why not use @bot.httputil.get(uri) instead of open(uri)?
# <@tango_> (2) :thread => yes to the method so it doesn't lock the bot while retrieving



class QdbPlugin < Plugin

  def help(plugin, topic="")
      "qdb <id> => fetch qdb quote by id"
  end

  def retrieve(m)
    request = m.params
    url = "http://www.qdb.us/#{request}"
    begin
      doc = Hpricot(@bot.httputil.get(url)) # (1) 
      quote = (doc/"table[@class='quote']/tr[2]/td[1]/p").text.split("\n")
      if quote.size <= 5
        quote.each {|line| m.reply line }
      else
        m.reply "quote too long (%s lines), see for yerself: %s" % [quote.size, url]
      end

    rescue => e
      m.reply "Fail"
    end
  end

  def privmsg(m)
    retrieve(m)
  end
end

plugin = QdbPlugin.new
plugin.map "qdb *request", :action => 'retrieve', :thread => "yes" # (2)