add methods to retrieve starred items

reader.py

@@ -12,21 +12,49 @@ class GoogleReader:
     def __init__(self, login, password):
         self.login = login
         self.password = password
-        self.authurl = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
-        self.re_auth = re.compile("Auth=")
+        self.auth_url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
+        self.re_auth = re.compile("SID=")
         self.sid = self.authenticate(self.login,self.password)
+        self.header = {}
+        self.header = self.create_header(self.header,self.sid)
 
     def authenticate(self,login,password):
         ''' method to authenticate to google'''
-        parameters = {'Email' : login,'Passwd' : password,'accountType' : 'HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE',
-                        'service' : 'reader', 'source' : 'googlereader2instapaper' }
+        parameters = {  'Email' : login,
+                        'Passwd' : password,
+                        'accountType' : 'HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE',
+                        'service' : 'reader', 
+                        'source' : 'googlereader2instapaper',
+                        'continue': 'http://www.google.com' }
         headerdata = urllib.urlencode(parameters)
         try:
-            request = urllib2.Request(self.authurl, headerdata)
+            request = urllib2.Request(self.auth_url, headerdata)
             response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read().split("\n")
             for r in response:
                 if self.re_auth.match(r):
                     return r.split("=")[1]
         except IOError, e:
             print e
-            return -1
+            return -1
+
+    def create_header(self, header, sid):
+        ''' Method to create the header which is used afterwards for authentication '''
+        header = {'User-agent' : 'python'}
+        header['Cookie'] = 'Name=SID;SID=%s;Domain=.google.com;Path=/;Expires=160000000000' % sid
+        return header
+
+    def get_starred_items(self,header,sid=False):
+        ''' method to get starred items from google reader '''
+        if sid:
+            id = sid
+        else:
+            id = self.sid
+        starred_url = "http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/-/state/com.google/starred"
+        try:
+            request = urllib2.Request(starred_url, None, header)
+            response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+            return response
+        except IOError, e:
+            print e
+            return -1
+