Workaround that SpeakerDeck removed the talk date from the user page

Author: luxas

types.go

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type User struct {
 
 	// TalkPreviews is a list of TalkPreview objects, containing information about each talk
 	// as seen on the user page
-	TalkPreviews TalkPreviews `json:"talkPreviews"`
+	TalkPreviews []TalkPreview `json:"talkPreviews"`
 }
 
 // Author describes the SD profile of the person that's created the presentations
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ type TalkPreview struct {
 	// Stars describes how many other users have starred this talk
 	Stars uint32 `json:"stars"`
 
-	// Date represents the talk presentation date
-	Date time.Time `json:"date"`
-
 	// Link describes the link to the talk at Speakerdeck
 	Link string `json:"link"`
 
@@ -75,6 +72,9 @@ type Talk struct {
 	// TalkPreview is embedded here as it contains all the data we want to display here, too
 	TalkPreview
 
+	// Date represents the talk presentation date
+	Date time.Time `json:"date"`
+
 	// Author describes the Speakerdeck profile of the person that's created the presentations
 	Author Author `json:"author"`
 
@@ -124,24 +124,6 @@ func (p Talks) Swap(i, j int) {
 	p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
 }
 
-// TalkPreviews orders the TalkPreview objects by time
-type TalkPreviews []TalkPreview
-
-// Len implements sort.Interface
-func (p TalkPreviews) Len() int {
-	return len(p)
-}
-
-// Less implements sort.Interface
-func (p TalkPreviews) Less(i, j int) bool {
-	return p[i].Date.Before(p[j].Date)
-}
-
-// Swap implements sort.Interface
-func (p TalkPreviews) Swap(i, j int) {
-	p[i], p[j] = p[j], p[i]
-}
-
 // Location describes a geographical location for the talk
 // This struct is populated by the LocationExtension, and is set based on
 // a "Location: <address>" string in the talk description. For instance,

user.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package speakerdeck
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"path"
-	"sort"
 
 	"github.com/gocolly/colly"
 	"github.com/luxas/speakerdeck-api/scraper"
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ func ScrapeUser(userHandle string, opts *scraper.ScrapeOptions) (*User, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	user := data.(*User)
-	sort.Sort(user.TalkPreviews)
 	return user, nil
 }
 
@@ -85,10 +83,6 @@ func onUserAbstract(e *colly.HTMLElement, data interface{}) (*string, error) {
 func onUserTalkFound(e *colly.HTMLElement, data interface{}) (*string, error) {
 	u := data.(*User)
 
-	d, err := parseDate(e.ChildText(".deck-preview-meta > :nth-child(1)"))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 	stars, err := parseNumber(e.ChildText(".deck-preview-meta > :nth-child(2)"))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -102,7 +96,6 @@ func onUserTalkFound(e *colly.HTMLElement, data interface{}) (*string, error) {
 		Title:  e.Attr("title"),
 		Link:   sdPrefix(e.Attr("href")),
 		DataID: e.ChildAttr("div.deck-preview", "data-id"),
-		Date:   d,
 		Views:  views,
 		Stars:  stars,
 	}