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Ruby gem for Google SocialGraph released

01.02.08

Filed Under: Ruby

Today, Google released their SocialGraph API. Since Tag Team’s core vision is to build cool stuff on the social graph, this is pretty exciting news.

We’ve cooked up a Ruby library to talk to the SocialGraph API, and get really interesting info out of it. This is the sort of thing that’s always more useful if more people have access to it, so even better, we’ve licensed it under the LGPL, so you can get all that Google goodness without having to do anything tedious to get it.

You can see the documentation if you’d like, or just enjoy the examples here:

require 'social_graph'
# We'll use Digg's Kevin Rose as our victim because hey, he's a pretty popular guy!

result = Google::SocialGraph.new "http://www.digg.com/users/kevinrose/"

# Get all people that Kevin refers to as a, acquaintance, contact, friend, or someone he's met
graph.refers_to_as([:acquaintance, :contact, :friend, :met]).inspect

# Now let’s get a list of all the people that say they’ve met Kevin
graph.referred_to_as(:met).inspect

# Anyone can say anything they want, but we want to know where else on the web we KNOW is Kevin.
# This looks for mutual links between sites to each other, with the given XFN identity.
graph.mutual_reference_as(:me).inspect

# We can also find people that Kevin is a friend with (and people who are friends with Kevin back!)
graph.mutual_reference_as([:friend, :met, :contact]).inspect

Get the source:

http://tagteaminteractive.com/code/social_graph/lib/social_graph.rb

Or, just get the gem!

gem install social_graph --source http://tagteaminteractive.com/code/

Hope it’s useful! If you end up using it, drop us a line and let us know how it’s being used.

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