@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +ff2tweet is meant to run as a script executed regularly by a daemon/service. + Twitter API code is from http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/ FriendFeed API code is from http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-api/ Bit.ly API is from http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation README @@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ import urllib2 import twitter import sys -import simplejson -parse_json = lambda s: simplejson.loads(s.decode("utf-8")) - # Globals TWITTER_USERNAME = '' TWITTER_PASSWORD = '' @@ -26,26 +23,26 @@ LAST_ENTRY_FILE = '' TWITTER_LIMIT_CHARS = 140 SOURCE_NAME = "ff2tweet" +def do_request(api_call): + request = urllib2.Request(api_call) + stream = urllib2.urlopen(request) + response = stream.read() + stream.close() + return response + def shorten_url(link): if BITLY_USERNAME == '': api_call = "http://bit.ly/api?url=" + link - request = urllib2.Request(api_call) - stream = urllib2.urlopen(request) - url = stream.read() - stream.close() - return url + url = do_request(api_call) else: api_call = "http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=" + BITLY_VERSION \ + "&longUrl=" + link \ + "&login=" + BITLY_USERNAME \ + "&apiKey=" + BITLY_APIKEY - request = urllib2.Request(api_call) - stream = urllib2.urlopen(request) - response = stream.read() - stream.close() + response = do_request(api_call) op = parse_json(response) url = op["results"][link]["shortUrl"] - return url + return url def post_tweet(tweet): tw_service = twitter.Twitter(TWITTER_USERNAME, TWITTER_PASSWORD) ff2tweet.py 511190ee16d37456ca37730342a2a7f1bd782914 Satyajit Grover samgrover@gmail.com http://github.com/samgrover/ff2tweet/commit/5528e6a43d6442cd5abc6facdf7047b96281f2fa 5528e6a43d6442cd5abc6facdf7047b96281f2fa 2009-03-31T21:01:06-07:00 2009-03-31T21:01:06-07:00 A bit of clean up. 44d9fc30268bb182cf02a8372f02c78a2bee5acb Satyajit Grover samgrover@gmail.com