chore: create posts if there is a 'new' one

use env var for number of posts
update bashrc after posting to cohost with the new number
todo: add looping with some delay, more env vars and maybe a better way of handling them
this feels very janky

NOTE: Docker is now broken because of files outside of the container. DO NOT USE DOCKER NOW

scripts/main.py

@@ -2,20 +2,42 @@
 from cohost.models.user import User
 from cohost.models.block import AttachmentBlock, MarkdownBlock
 
-
-# import os.environ for environment variable management, sys for exiting upon exception and time.sleep to not overload cohost or your own site with requests
+# import os.environ for environment variable management, sys for exiting upon exception, time.sleep to not overload cohost or your own site with requests and feedparser for fetching feeds
 from os import environ
 import sys
 from time import sleep
+import feedparser as fp
+
+try:  
+   feedLength = environ.get("LENGTH")
+except KeyError: 
+   print ('Please set the environment variable LENGTH with export LENGTH="NUMBER-OF-POSTS"')
+   sys.exit(1)
+
+feedLength = int(feedLength) 
+# print (feedLength)
+
+
+
+# fetch and parse the feed
+data = fp.parse("https://crimsontome.com/feed/feed.xml") # replace with your feed url
+
+title = data.entries[0].title
+url = data.entries[0].link
+date = data.entries[0].updated.split("T", 1)[0]
+
+postNum = len(data.entries)
+
+# print (title, url, date, postNum)
+
 
 # set cookie in with below line bwlow, you will have to run again when you reload your shell. to get around this run the line below that and then reload your shell
 # export COOKIE="YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"
 # echo 'export COOKIE="YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"' >> ~/.bashrc
 # see https://github.com/valknight/Cohost.py#tokens for how to get your token
 
-
 #  try import the cookie, tells the user to set it if it does not exist
-try:  
+try:
    cookie = environ.get("COOKIE")
 except KeyError: 
    print ('Please set the environment variable COOKIE with export COOKIE="YOUR-TOKEN-HERE"')
@@ -28,12 +50,18 @@
 #login
 user = User.loginWithCookie(cookie)
 
-for project in user.editedProjects:
-    print(project) # Print all pages you have edit permissions for
-# project = user.getProject('username') # will retrieve the page I have edit writes for with handle @vallerie
-# blocks = [
-#     AttachmentBlock('pybug.png'), # References image file pybug.png
-#     MarkdownBlock('**Hello from Python!**') # Example of markdown / text block
-# ]
-# newPost = project.post('Title of python post!', blocks, tags=['cohost.py', 'python'])
-# print('Check out your post at {}'.format(newPost.url))
+# for project in user.editedProjects:
+#     print(project) # Print all pages you have edit permissions for
+project = user.getProject('crimsontome427') # replace with your project name
+if postNum > feedLength:
+    blocks = [
+        # AttachmentBlock('pybug.png'), # References image file pybug.png
+        MarkdownBlock("["+title+"]("+url+") Posted on: "+date)
+    ]
+    post = project.post("Blog post #"+str(feedLength),blocks)
+    print('Check out your post at {}'.format(post.url))
+    feedLength+=1
+    environ["LENGTH"] = str(feedLength)
+    file1 = open("/home/ctome/.bashrc", "a")  # append mode, replace with your bashrc location
+    file1.write('export LENGTH="'+str(feedLength)+'"')
+    file1.close()