another sample script contributed by twister user

contrib/posts_sync.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# posts_sync.py example script to post from html page
+
+import sys, cPickle, time, urllib2
+from pyquery import PyQuery
+
+reload(sys)
+sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
+
+try:
+    from bitcoinrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy
+except ImportError as exc:
+    sys.stderr.write("Error: install python-bitcoinrpc (https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc)\n")
+    exit(-1)
+
+### options parsing
+
+from optparse import OptionParser
+parser = OptionParser("usage: %prog [options] <page_url> <username>")
+parser.add_option("-s", "--serverUrl",
+                  action="store", dest="serverUrl", default="http://user:pwd@127.0.0.1:28332",
+                  help="connect to specified twisterd server URL")
+parser.add_option("-p", "--proxyUrl",
+                  action="store", dest="proxyUrl", default="",
+                  help="proxyUrl to use")
+parser.add_option("-d", action="store_true", dest="dryRun",
+                  help="dry-run, just report posts")
+
+(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+if len(args) != 2:
+    parser.error("incorrect number of arguments")
+
+pageUrl = args[0]
+username = args[1]
+
+### connect to twisterd
+
+twister = AuthServiceProxy(options.serverUrl)
+lastK = -1
+lastUserPost = twister.getposts(1, [{"username":username}])
+for i in range(len(lastUserPost)):
+    if lastUserPost[i]["userpost"]["n"] == username:
+        lastK = int(lastUserPost[i]["userpost"]["k"])
+        break
+print username, "lastK:", lastK
+
+### load db from previous run
+
+dbFileName = username + ".pickle"
+class MyDb:
+    lastDatatime = 0
+try:
+    db = cPickle.load(open(dbFileName))
+except:
+    db = MyDb()
+
+### setup proxy
+
+if len(options.proxyUrl):
+    proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': options.proxyUrl,'https': options.proxyUrl})
+    opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
+    urllib2.install_opener(opener)
+
+### download html content
+
+user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.73.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.1 Safari/537.73.11'
+headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
+req = urllib2.Request(pageUrl, headers = headers)
+response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+html = response.read()
+pq = PyQuery(html.decode('utf8'))
+
+### parse html
+
+items = pq(".content")
+for i in xrange(len(items)-1,0,-1):
+    item = items.eq(i)
+    datatime = int(item.find("[data-time]").attr("data-time"))
+    if datatime > db.lastDatatime :
+        db.lastDatatime = datatime
+        p = item.find("p")
+        ptext = p.text()
+        ptext = ptext.replace(":// ","://").replace("# ","#").replace("@ ","@")
+        print "newpostmsg", username, lastK+1, ptext
+        if not options.dryRun:
+            twister.newpostmsg(username, lastK+1, ptext)
+        lastK = lastK+1
+
+if not options.dryRun:
+    cPickle.dump(db,open(dbFileName,"w"))