From fb94d5cd9d6fc4545cdaeb32ba8d49c307a32d07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ketralnis <ketralnis@reddit.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:38:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] init

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 .gitignore       |  1 +
 reddittweeter.py | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100755 reddittweeter.py

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+reddittweeter.db
diff --git a/reddittweeter.py b/reddittweeter.py
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+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+import twitter
+import feedparser
+from calendar import timegm
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+from sqlalchemy import Column, String, Integer, create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+debug = False
+
+sourceurl = "http://www.reddit.com/.rss"
+dbname = 'reddittweeter.db'
+maxtweets = 10 # don't tweet more than this in one session
+keepfor = timedelta(days=7) # how long to keep articles in the sqlite
+                            # cache to keep them from being tweeted
+                            # twice
+
+encoding = 'utf-8'
+maxlength = 140
+
+################################################################################
+
+Base = declarative_base()
+
+class Article(Base):
+    __tablename__ = 'article'
+    id = Column(String, primary_key = True)
+    timestamp = Column(Integer)
+
+    def __init__(self, id, timestamp):
+        self.id = id
+        self.timestamp = timestamp
+
+def db_maintenance(metadata):
+    pass
+
+def main(username, password):
+    engine = create_engine('sqlite:///%s' % dbname, echo = debug)
+    Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
+    session = Session()
+    Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
+
+    api = twitter.Api(username=username, password=password, input_encoding=encoding)
+
+    feed = feedparser.parse(sourceurl)
+
+    urlanalyser = re.compile('http://www.reddit.com/r/([.a-zA-z0-9-_]+)/comments/([a-zA-z0-9]+)/.*')
+    numtweets = 0
+
+    for entry in feed.entries:
+        match = urlanalyser.match(entry.link)
+        sr = str(match.group(1))
+        link_id = str(match.group(2))
+        timestamp = timegm(entry.updated_parsed)
+
+        existing = session.query(Article).filter_by(id = link_id).first()
+        if existing and debug:
+            print "Skipping %r" % entry.title
+        elif not existing:
+            title = entry.title.strip().encode(encoding)
+            message_postfix = " http://reddit.com/%s" % link_id
+
+            if len(title) + len(message_postfix) > maxlength:
+                title = title[:maxlength-len(title)-len(message_postfix)-3]
+                message = "%s...%s" % (title, message_postfix)
+            else:
+                message = "%s%s" % (title, message_postfix)
+
+            if debug:
+                print "Tweeting %r" % message
+
+            api.PostUpdate(message)
+            time.sleep(1) # don't hit them too hard
+
+            session.add(Article(link_id, timestamp))
+            session.commit()
+
+            numtweets += 1
+            if numtweets >= maxtweets:
+                if debug:
+                    print "Quitting early"
+                break
+
+    expiry = timegm((datetime.now() - keepfor).timetuple())
+    old_ids = session.query(Article).filter(Article.timestamp < expiry).delete()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+        print "Usage: redditweeter USERNAME PASSWORD"
+        sys.exit(1)
+    username = sys.argv[1]
+    password = sys.argv[2]
+    main(username, password)