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chirpyt: Simple Python script to share a link to Twitter

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  1. #! /usr/bin/env python
  2. #   
  3. #   chirpyt-0.1.py
  4. #   http://twitter.com/chirpyt
  5. #   A simple python script to share a link to Twitter stream :-)
  6. #   ksaver (at identi.ca), Sep 11, 2010.
  7. #   Public Domain Code.
  8. #   Not warranty at all.
  9. #
  10. #   In order to work, some requierements must be met:
  11. #       BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
  12. #       tweepy:        http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy   
  13. #
  14. #   Usage:
  15. #       ./chirpyt.py   auth                -To get a pair of oauth keys.
  16. #       ./chirpyt.py   help                -To get this help output.
  17. #       ./chirpyt.py   http://example.com  -To send a new link.
  18. #       ./chirpyt.py                       -Without arguments.
  19. #
  20. #   Elliot, be good.
  21.  
  22. import string
  23. import sys
  24. import tweepy
  25. import urllib
  26. import urllib2
  27.  
  28. from   BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as cooksoup
  29.  
  30. # Edit this two lines, and add your own keys.
  31. # To get a key pair, run ./chirpyt.py  auth.
  32. #------------------------------------------------
  33. ACCESS_KEY      = 'PASTE_HERE_YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'
  34. ACCESS_SECRET   = 'PASTE_HERE_YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET'
  35. #------------------------------------------------
  36.  
  37. CONSUMER_KEY    = 'D6gfLh3XYuyLrnlP3XYdQw'
  38. CONSUMER_SECRET = '7fete8FUruFaJPAl4NFVg3jF2TZDiNUG5FkW2ob0oM'
  39.  
  40. def authorize():
  41.     auth     = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
  42.     auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
  43.     print "----------------------------"
  44.     print "Chirpyt authorization module"
  45.     print "----------------------------\n"
  46.     print "Please login to Twitter in your browser,",
  47.     print "then open this URL and authorize (by clicking 'Allow'):"
  48.     print auth_url
  49.     print
  50.  
  51.     verifier = ''
  52.     while not verifier:
  53.         verifier = raw_input("Enter here the numeric PIN: ").strip()
  54.  
  55.     auth.get_access_token(verifier)
  56.     print "Now, copy the next pair of keys, and paste them into the script."
  57.     print
  58.     print "ACCESS_KEY = '%s'" % auth.access_token.key
  59.     print "ACCESS_SECRET = '%s'" % auth.access_token.secret
  60.  
  61. def chirpyt(tweet):
  62.     auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
  63.     auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
  64.     api  = tweepy.API(auth)
  65.     api.update_status(tweet)
  66.  
  67. def get_html(url, params):
  68.     uagent = 'Opera/9.80 (X11; FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386; U; en)\
  69.     Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62'
  70.     headers = {'User-Agent': uagent}
  71.     request = urllib2.Request(url, params, headers)
  72.     return urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
  73.  
  74. def get_title(url):
  75.     htmldoc = get_html(url, None)
  76.     soup    = cooksoup(htmldoc)
  77.     return soup.title.string.strip()
  78.  
  79. def short_url(longurl):
  80.     shortener = 'http://ur1.ca/'
  81.     webparams = {'longurl': longurl}
  82.     encparams = urllib.urlencode(webparams)
  83.     htmldoc   = get_html(shortener, encparams)
  84.     soup      = cooksoup(htmldoc)
  85.     return soup.p.text[string.find(soup.p.text, ':')+1:]
  86.  
  87. def help():
  88.     myname = sys.argv[0]
  89.     helpstring = '''
  90.     Usage:
  91.             ./%s  auth                -To get a pair of oauth keys.
  92.             ./%s  help                -To get this help output.
  93.             ./%s  http://example.com  -To tweet a new link.
  94.             ./%s                      -Without arguments.
  95.  
  96.     ''' % (myname, myname, myname, myname)
  97.     return helpstring
  98.  
  99. def main(argv):
  100.  
  101.     TITMAXLEN = 100
  102.     TWTMAXLEN = 140
  103.  
  104.     if  len(argv) > 1:
  105.         if argv[1] == 'auth':
  106.             authorize()
  107.             exit()            
  108.         elif argv[1] == 'help':
  109.             print help()
  110.             exit()            
  111.         else:
  112.             url = argv[1]            
  113.     else:
  114.         url = raw_input("Please enter a url: ")
  115.  
  116.     page_title = get_title(url)[:TITMAXLEN]
  117.     tweet = "%s: %s" % (page_title, url)
  118.  
  119.     if len(tweet) > TWTMAXLEN:
  120.         url = short_url(url)
  121.         tweet = "%s: %s" % (page_title, url)
  122.  
  123.     chirpyt(tweet)
  124.     print "%s [%s chars]\n" % (tweet, len(tweet))
  125.  
  126.  
  127. if __name__ == '__main__':
  128.     main(sys.argv)

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