Github trending twitter bot

.ghtrend_bot.cfg

[github]
login=
password=

[twitter]
CONSUMER_KEY=
CONSUMER_SECRET=
ACCESS_TOKEN=
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=

gh_trending_bot.py

"""
    Simple github trending twittbot.
"""

import os
import json
import github3
import datetime
import ConfigParser
from birdy.twitter import UserClient


def main():
    """
        main
    """
    cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    cfg.read(os.path.expanduser('~/.ghtrend_bot.cfg'))

    ghub = github3.login(
        cfg.get('github', 'login'),
        cfg.get('github', 'password')
    )

    client = UserClient(
        cfg.get('twitter', 'CONSUMER_KEY'),
        cfg.get('twitter', 'CONSUMER_SECRET'),
        cfg.get('twitter', 'ACCESS_TOKEN'),
        cfg.get('twitter', 'ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')
    )

    def get_short_description(obj):
        """
            Get desc in less than 100 characters.
            TODO: Use twitter's current 144 - max_link_lenght
        """
        desc = unicode(obj['description']).encode('utf-8', errors="replace")
        return desc[:100] + (desc[100:] and '...')

    def get_twitt(obj):
        """
            Given a github search result object, get description and
            url in a format acceptable to twitter
        """
        return "{}: {}".format(get_short_description(obj), obj['url'])

    def get_first_dow():
        """
            Returns the first day of current week
        """
        time_ = datetime.datetime.now()
        return time_ - datetime.timedelta(time_.weekday())

    def get_dow():
        time_ = datetime.datetime.now()
        return time_.weekday()       

    weekdate = get_first_dow().strftime('%Y-%m-01')

    gh_repos = ghub.search_repositories(
        "created:>{}".format(weekdate), sort='stars', number=7)

    repos = [repo for repo in gh_repos]
    
    repo = repos[get_dow()]
    twitt = get_twitt(json.loads(repo.as_json()))
    client.api.statuses.update.post(status=twitt)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()