I am happy to announce the availability of as3dribbble, an ActionScript client library for working with Dribbble.com APIs. The library is strongly-typed, pagination-aware, and rate-limit aware for accessing all the current APIs. The library also exposes a convenience class called DribbbleInvoker that may be used to add more APIs (should they get added in future and this library looses track). The invoker is rate-limit safe.

Usage

A simple example to use is as under,

private function getShotDetails():void {
  var client:DribbbleClient = new DribbbleClient();
  // the requestID can then be used to check which request failed
  var requestID:uint = client.getShot(12, showShot, errorHandler);
}

private function showShot(shot:Shot):void {
  trace('received shot details: ' + shot);
}

private function errorHandler(id:uint):void {
  // error occured when fetching shot details
}

Pagination Support

All API methods that support pagination have a corresponding, pagination-aware method available as well. For example, when fetching comments for a shot you may do,

<pre class="brush: as3">var client:DribbbleClient = new DribbbleClient();

private function getShotComments():void {
var requestID:uint = client.getShotComments(123, showComments, errorHandler);
}

private function showComments(list:CommentList):void {
// do something with these comments

var requestID:uint;

// check for more comments
if(list.getPage() < list.getPages()) {
// fetch results from page 2
requestID = client.getShotComments(1, showComments, errorHandler, 2);

// or, may provide the number of results to fetch as well
// fetch results from page 2, with 15 results per page
requestID = getShotComments(1, showComments, errorHandler, 2, 15);
}
}
</pre>The current default for number of results per page is 15 per Dribbble API. Refer http://dribbble.com/api for more details.
<h3>Rate-Limiting and Exceptions</h3>By default, the DribbbleClient will throw a DribbbleApiRateLimitException run-time error when the request rate goes over the board. This makes sure that your client does not need to catch unnecessary exceptions during invocation. In case you wish, you may catch this exception and delay the request to a future time as,
<pre class="brush: as3">private function getShot():void {
var shot:Shot = null;
var shotID:uint = 1;

try {
var requestID:uint = client.getShot(shotID, showShot, errorHandler);
} catch(e:DribbbleApiRateLimitException) {
// wait for a minute
setTimeOut(getShot, 1000 * 60); // call again after a minute
}
}
</pre>If you wish to prevent the code from throwing the DribbbleApiRateLimitException exception, you can do so when creating the client.
<pre class="brush: as3">var client:DribbbleClient = new DribbbleClient(false);
</pre>Any invocations on this client, will not throw the error, but return a null back as the result to the completion handler you specified.

<h3>Dependencies</h3>The library does not depend on any third-party libraries and is self-contained. The library has been compiled and tested using Adobe Flex 4.6/Adobe AIR 3.0.

<h3>Project Links</h3>More details on the project can be found on project home page, http://www.sangupta.com/projects/as3dribbble.
Source Code: https://github.com/sangupta/as3dribbble
Downloads: https://github.com/sangupta/as3dribbble/downloads
Issue Management: https://github.com/sangupta/as3dribbble/issues
Usage Instructions: https://github.com/sangupta/as3dribbble/blob/master/README.md

Keep Dribbbling!