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A way to post to twitter from Google AppEngine using urlfetch.

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  1. class SendChime(webapp.RequestHandler):
  2.    def get(self):
  3.       self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
  4.       username =  self.request.get("username")
  5.  
  6.       login =  username
  7.       password = "password"
  8.       chime = self.get_chime()
  9.       payload= {'status' : chime,  'source' : "innertwitter"}
  10.       payload= urllib.urlencode(payload)
  11.  
  12.       base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (login, password))[:-1]
  13.       headers = {'Authorization': "Basic %s" % base64string} 
  14.  
  15.       url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"
  16.       result = urlfetch.fetch(url, payload=payload, method=urlfetch.POST, headers=headers)
  17.  
  18.       self.response.out.write(result.content)
  19.  
  20.    def get_chime(self):
  21.       now = datetime.datetime.now()
  22.       chime = "........*chime*.............." + now.ctime()
  23.       return chime
  24.  
  25. def main():
  26.   application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
  27.                                        [('/innertwitter', InnerTwitter),
  28.                                        ('/sendchime', SendChime)],
  29.                                        debug=True)

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