#!/bin/env python
"""
A Pyblosxom plugin to fetch status updates from Twitter.
Depends:
python-twitter <http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter>
simplejson <http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson>
Configuration:
The following variables must be set in your config.py
- "twitterusr" your username
- "twitterpasswd" and that other thing
Optional
- "num_tweets" the number of tweets to display, defaults to 5
- "othertwitterusr" display a different user's stream
Use:
refer to $tweets in your templates to generate an
html unordered list <ul>
CSS Hooks:
ul class blosxomTweets
li class blosxomTweet
"""
__author__ = "Devon Meunier <devon.meunier@myopicvoid.org>"
__version__ = "0.1.5"
__url__ = "http://myopicvoid.org/"
__description__ = "Display tweets on your pyblosxom blog."
import os; os.environ["PYTHON_EGG_CACHE"]="/home/protected"
import twitter
def verify_installation(request):
config = request.getConfiguration()
if config.has_key("twitterusr") and config.has_key("twitterpasswd"):
print " twitter user: " + config["twitterusr"]
print " password: " + "*"*len(config["twitterpasswd"])
return 1
return 0
class PyblTwitter:
"""
Provides access to your twitter status updates.
"""
def __init__(self, request):
self._request = request
self._config = request.getConfiguration()
self._tweets = None
def __str__(self):
"""
Returns the on-demand generated string.
"""
self.generateTweets()
return self._tweets
def generateTweets(self):
"""
Creates the _tweets attribute
"""
user = self._config["twitterusr"]
passwd = self._config ["twitterpasswd"]
api = twitter.Api(username=user, password=passwd)
statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(user)
if self._config.has_key("othertwitterusr"):
statuses = self._config["othertwitterusr"]
self._tweets = self.format(statuses)
def format(self, statuses):
"""
Formats twitter statuses into html and css
"""
numtweets = 5
if self._config.has_key("num_tweets"):
numtweets = self._config["num_tweets"]
res = '<ul class="blosxomTweets">\n'
for s in statuses[:numtweets]:
# makes any links active
i = s.text.find("http")
if i is not -1:
j = s.text.find(" ", i)
url = s.text[i:j]
if j is not -1:
s.text = '%s<a href="%s">%s</a>%s' % (s.text[:i],url,url,s.text[j:])
else:
s.text = s.text[:i] + '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (self[i:],) * 2
res += " <li class='blosxomTweet'>%s</li>\n" % s.text
res += "</ul>"
return res.encode('utf-8')
def cb_prepare(args):
request = args["request"]
data = request.getData()
data["tweets"] = PyblTwitter(request)