tweetorator.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#coding: utf-8
import ConfigParser
import sys
import twitter
import logging
import tldb
import re

"""
THE NINJA IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE
TODO: FIX EVERYTHING
"""

__version__ = "0.1"

_api = None
initialized = False

def init():
    global _api

    cfg = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
    cfg.read("tweetorator.cfg")
    consumer_key = cfg.get("twitter", "consumer_key")
    consumer_secret = cfg.get("twitter", "consumer_secret")
    access_token_key = cfg.get("twitter", "access_token_key")
    access_token_secret = cfg.get("twitter", "access_token_secret")
    _api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = consumer_key,
                      consumer_secret = consumer_secret,
                      access_token_key = access_token_key,
                      access_token_secret = access_token_secret)

    logging.debug("VerifyCredentials: %s" % _api.VerifyCredentials())

    tldb.loadCfg('tldb.cfg')

def post_confession(text):
    global _api

    # Return if text only contains whitespace
    if re.search(r'\S', text) is None:
        logging.info("Confession only containing whitespace. Abort")
        return

    if not initialized:
        init()

    if len(text) > 140:
        logging.info("Adding confession longer than 140")
        try:
            tldb.addConfession(text)
        except:
            logging.error("%s, 1, text was >>%s<<" % (sys.exc_info()[0], text))
            pass
    else:
        logging.info("Adding confession shorter than 140")
        try:
            status = _api.PostUpdate(text)
            tldb.addConfession(text, status.AsJsonString())
        except:
            logging.error("%s, 2, text was >>%s<<" % (sys.exc_info()[0], text))
            pass