Create a new, random add-on through the AMO add-on builder

new-addon.py

import httplib
import urllib
import uuid


ROOT = 'addons.mozilla.org'
BUILDER_URL = '/en-US/developers/tools/builder/'

params_ = {
    'name': 'unst unst',
    'description': 'stephend ftw',
    'version': '1.0',
    'id': '{%s}' % uuid.uuid4(),
    'package': 'stephend',
    'author': 'Stephen Donner',
    'applications[]': 'firefox',
    'firefox_min': '3.5b4',
    'firefox_max': '3.7a1pre',
    'ui[]': 'about',
    'contributors': '',
    }

# Have to fill these out or the form looks invalid.
for app in ('thunderbird', 'sunbird', 'mobile'):
    params_[app + '_min'] = params_[app + '_max'] = '0.7'

# seamonkey is *always* a fucking special case.
params_['seamonkey_min'] = params_['seamonkey_max'] = '1.0'


def main():
    params = urllib.urlencode(params_)
    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(ROOT)
    conn.request('POST', BUILDER_URL, params, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()

    hash = response.getheader('location').rsplit('/', 1)[1]
    response.close()

    conn.request('GET', '%s/downloads/%s' % (BUILDER_URL, hash))
    response = conn.getresponse()
    open('stephen.xpi', 'w').write(response.read())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()