vimcast.zsh

list=( ${(f)"$(<vimgor.txt)"} )

for v in $list; do
    echo $v
    echo "irc.freenode.vimgor *$v" >> ~/.weechat/weechat_fifo_27744
    sleep 30
done

vimcasts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import html
import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
import re
import operator

tree = et.parse('ogg')
root = tree.getroot()

def grabNumber(url):
    return re.search('videos/(\d+)', url).group(1)

def sanitise(desc):
    desc = desc.strip(' \r\n\t')
    desc = html.unescape(desc)
    desc = re.sub(r'</?(p|em)>', "", desc)
    desc = re.sub(r'</?a( [^>]*)?>', "", desc)
    desc = re.sub(r'</?code>', "'", desc)
    desc = re.sub(r'[ \n\r]+', ' ', desc)
    return desc

factoids = []

for item in root.findall("./channel/item"):
    title = item.find("./title").text
    print("Processing \"" + title + "\"... ", end="")

    enc = item.find("./enclosure")

    # Skip non-casts
    if enc == None:
        print("Not a cast")
        continue
    else:
        print("")

    factoid = {}

    ep = grabNumber(enc.attrib["url"])
    factoid['title'] = title
    factoid['ep'] = ep
    factoid['desc']  = sanitise(item.find("./description").text)
    factoid['url']   = 'http://vimcasts.org/e/' + ep

    factoids.append(factoid)

def gen_overview(f, title="", ep="", desc="", url=""):
    overview_format = "e%s: %s\n"
    f.write(overview_format % (ep,  title))

def gen_vimgor(f, title="", ep="", desc="", url=""):
    vimgor_format1 = "forget e%s\n"
    vimgor_format2 = "e%s is <reply> %s: %s - %s\n"
    f.write(vimgor_format1 % ep)
    if len(desc) > 350:
        print("cuttin")
        desc = desc[0:350]
        desc = desc[0:desc.rfind(' ')] + "..."
    vimgor.write(vimgor_format2 % (ep, title,  desc, url))

overview = open('overview.txt', 'w')
vimgor = open('vimgor.txt', 'w')

factoids.reverse()
for f in factoids:
    gen_overview(overview, **f)
    gen_vimgor(vimgor, **f)

overview.close()
vimgor.close()