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+#
+# Copyright Michael Orlitzky
+#
+# http://michael.orlitzky.com/
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
+#
+
+require 'src/website'
+
+class Howcast < Website
+
+ VALID_HOWCAST_URL_REGEX = /^(http:\/\/)?(www\.)?howcast\.com\/videos\/(\d+)-(.+)$/
+
+ def self.owns_url?(url)
+ return url =~ VALID_HOWCAST_URL_REGEX
+ end
+
+
+ def get_video_url()
+ video_id = parse_video_id()
+ xml_url = "http://www.howcast.com/videos/#{video_id}.xml"
+ xml_data = self.get_page_data(xml_url)
+ filepath = parse_file_path_from_xml(xml_data)
+
+ return "http://www.howcast.com#{filepath}"
+ end
+
+ protected;
+
+ def parse_video_id()
+ # This regex just pulls out the video id
+ id_regex = /\/(\d+)-/
+ matches = id_regex.match(@url)
+
+ if matches.nil?
+ raise StandardError.new('The URL is a valid Howcast URL, but does not match on the digit portion of the regex. Since the digit portion is a subset of the "valid" regex, this should never occur.')
+ end
+
+ return matches[1]
+ end
+
+
+ def parse_file_path_from_xml(data)
+ file_path_regex = /<filename>(.*?)<\/filename>/
+ matches = file_path_regex.match(data)
+
+ if matches.nil?
+ raise StandardError.new("Couldn't parse the <filename> tag from the XML file.")
+ end
+
+ return matches[1]
+ end
+
+end