Variety (An automatic wallpaper changer, downloader and manager for Linux, http://peterlevi.com/variety) tumblr quotes plugin.

A Variety tumblr quotes plugin.md

Variety tumblr quotes plugin

Installation

1. Copy the tumblr.py file into ~/.config/variety/plugins/quotes.
2. Restart variety.
3. Activate the plugin under Effects -> Quotes -> Sources and filtering.
4. Under authors, enter the blog names you want to get quotes from (.tumblr.com will be added automatically).
5. That's it!

Notes

• This plugin will not fetch anything if you do not enter a blog name.
• This plugin was tested with Variety 0.4.17.
• This plugin is in early developement. Expect bugs!
• You are invited to contribute, just leave a comment.

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2013 Christian Flach

LICENSE.md

Copyright (c) 2013 Christian Flach

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

tumblr.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- Mode: Python; coding: utf-8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; tab-width: 4 -*-
### BEGIN LICENSE
# Copyright (c) 2013 Christian Flach
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
# THE SOFTWARE.
### END LICENSE

from variety.Util import Util
from variety.plugins.IQuoteSource import IQuoteSource
from locale import gettext as _

import logging
import random

logger = logging.getLogger("variety")

class TumblrSource(IQuoteSource):
    @classmethod
    def get_info(cls):
        return {
            "name": "Tumblr quotes",
            "description": _("Fetches quotes from tumblrs RSS feed."),
            "author": "Christian Flach",
            "version": "0.1"
        }

    def supports_search(self):
        return True
    
    def get_quote(self, author):
        url = "http://" + author + ".tumblr.com/rss"

        bs = Util.xml_soup(url)
        items = bs.find_all("item")
        quotes = [];
        for item in items:
            title = item.find("title").contents[0].strip()
            if title != 'Photo' and title != 'Audio' and title != 'Video':
                quotes.append(item.find("title").contents[0])

        if not quotes:
            logger.warning("Could not find quotes for URL " + url)
            return []

        return [{"quote": random.choice(quotes), "author": author, "sourceName": "tumblr", "link": ""}]

    def get_for_author(self, author):
        return self.get_quote(author)

    def get_for_keyword(self, keyword):
        return []
    
    def get_random(self):
        return []

~/.config/variety/pluginconfig/quotes #