Simple cron script to post RSS/ATOM items to Twister
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from conf import *
import feedparser,anydbm,sys
from bitcoinrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy
### truncated_utf8() is based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/13738452
def _is_utf8_lead_byte(b):
'''A UTF-8 intermediate byte starts with the bits 10xxxxxx.'''
return (ord(b) & 0xC0) != 0x80
def truncated_utf8(text,max_bytes,ellipsis='\xe2\x80\xa6'):
'''If text[max_bytes] is not a lead byte, back up until a lead byte is
found and truncate before that character.'''
utf8 = text.encode('utf8')
if len(utf8) <= max_bytes:
return utf8
i = max_bytes-len(ellipsis)
while i > 0 and not _is_utf8_lead_byte(utf8[i]):
i -= 1
return utf8[:i]+ellipsis
def get_next_k(twister,username):
try:
return twister.getposts(1,[{'username':username}])[0]['userpost']['k']+1
except:
return 0
def main(max_items):
db = anydbm.open(DB_FILENAME,'c')
twister = AuthServiceProxy(RPC_URL)
for feed_url in FEEDS:
logging.info(feed_url)
feed = feedparser.parse(feed_url)
n_items = 0
for e in feed.entries:
eid = '{0}|{1}'.format(feed_url,e.id)
if db.has_key(eid): # been there, done that (or not - for a reason)
logging.debug('Skipping duplicate {0}'.format(eid))
else: # format as a <=140 character string
if len(e.link)<=MAX_URL_LENGTH:
msg = u'{0} {1}'.format(e.link,e.title)
if len(msg)>140: # Truncate (and hope it's still meaningful)
msg = msg[:137]+u'...'
else: # Link too long. Not enough space left for text :(
msg = ''
utfmsg = truncated_utf8(msg,140)# limit is 140 utf-8 bytes (not chars)
msg = unicode(utfmsg,'utf-8') # AuthServiceProxy needs unicode [we just needed to know where to truncate, and that's utf-8]
db[eid] = utfmsg # anydbm, on the other hand, can't handle unicode, so it's a good thing we've also kept the utf-8 :)
if not msg: # We've marked it as "posted", but no sense really posting it.
logging.warn(u'Link too long at {0}'.format(eid))
continue
if n_items>=max_items: # Avoid accidental flooding
logging.warn(u'Skipping "over quota" item: {0}'.format(msg))
continue
logging.info(u'posting {0}'.format(msg))
try:
twister.newpostmsg(USERNAME,get_next_k(twister,USERNAME),msg)
except Exception,e:
logging.error(`e`) # usually not very informative :(
n_items+=1
if __name__=='__main__':
if len(sys.argv)>1:
if len(sys.argv)>2 or not sys.argv[1].isdigit():
sys.stderr.write("""Usage: {cmd} [N]
if [optional] N is supplied, it's used as the maximum items to post (per feed). Default is {n}.
If there are more than N new items in a feed, "over quota" items get marked as if they were posted
(this can be handy when you add a new feed with a long history).
Specifically, {cmd} 0 would make all feeds "catch up" without posting anything.
""".format(cmd=sys.argv[0],n=MAX_NEW_ITEMS_PER_FEED))
sys.exit(-1)
else:
n = int(sys.argv[1])
else:
n = MAX_NEW_ITEMS_PER_FEED
main(n)