h/plugins/twitter.py

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"""
twitter.py: written by Scaevolus 2009
retrieves most recent tweets
"""
import re
import urllib2
from lxml import etree
from util import hook
def unescape_xml(string):
# unescape the 5 chars that might be escaped in xml
# gratuitously functional
# return reduce(lambda x, y: x.replace(*y), (string,
# zip('&gt; &lt; &apos; &quote; &amp'.split(), '> < \' " &'.split()))
# boring, normal
return string.replace('&gt;', '>').replace('&lt;', '<').replace('&apos;',
"'").replace('&quote;', '"').replace('&amp;', '&')
@hook.command
def twitter(inp):
".twitter <user>/<id> - gets last tweet from <user>/gets tweet <id>"
inp = inp.strip()
if not inp:
return twitter.__doc__
getting_id = False
if re.match('^\d+$', inp):
getting_id = True
url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/show/%s.xml' % inp
elif re.match('^\w{,15}$', inp):
url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.xml?count=1' % inp
else:
return 'error: invalid username'
try:
xml = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
errors = {400 : 'bad request (ratelimited?)',
401: 'tweet is private',
404: 'invalid user/id',
500: 'twitter is broken',
502: 'twitter is down ("getting upgraded")',
503: 'twitter is overloaded (lol, RoR)'}
if e.code == 404:
return 'error: invalid ' + ['username', 'tweet id'][getting_id]
if e.code in errors:
return 'error: ' + errors[e.code]
return 'error: unknown'
tweet = etree.fromstring(xml)
if not getting_id:
tweet = tweet.find('status')
if tweet is None:
return 'error: user has no tweets'
return unescape_xml(': '.join(tweet.find(x).text.replace('\n','') for x in
'created_at user/screen_name text'.split()))