Another version of blather

    And while I'm thinking of all things blather, I've been meaning to post this new version of the blather code for a week or two. This version is just a small refactor which allows for random other python scripts to import blather.py and put messages into the stream of messages to be posted online.

    You can find the source here. A sample program to place messages into the blather stream is: 

      #!/usr/bin/python

import feedparser
import os
import shelve
import sys

plugins_dir = '%s/plugins' % os.getcwd()
print 'Appending %s to module path' % plugins_dir
sys.path.append(plugins_dir)
import blather

data = shelve.open('fetchshared.slf', writeback=True)
ds = blather.DataStore()

changed = False
for feed in data['feeds']:
  data.setdefault('guids', {})
  data['guids'].setdefault(feed, [])

  print
  print 'Fetching %s' % feed
  d = feedparser.parse(feed)

  for ent in d.entries:
    if ent.guid not in data['guids'][feed]:
      post = ('Mikal shared: <a href="%s">%s</a>'
              %(ent.link, ent.title))
      print post
      ds.AddMessage(post)
      data['guids'][feed].append(ent.guid)
      changed = True

if changed:
  ds.Save()
data.close()


    Too easy.

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