- Implemented copy to clipboard for the trending stuff. - clicking buttons now also opens the link in your browser.

gplus_ttopten.py

import urllib2, re, time
from Tkinter import *
import datetime 
import webbrowser

class App:
    def __init__(self, master):
        self.master = master
        frame = Frame(master, bg="")
        frame.pack()

        self.buttons = []
        for i in range(10):
            b = Button(self.master,text="",width=32)
            b.bind("<Button-1>",self.trend_click)
            self.buttons.append(b)
            b.pack()

        
        self.trend_string = StringVar()
        self.trend_string.set('')
        self.trend_dict = {}
        self.update_string = StringVar()
        self.update_string.set('Last Updated: ')
 
        Label(frame, text='Google+ Trends',
              font=('Times', '14', 'bold')).grid(row=0, column=0,
                                                 pady=10, padx=20)
        Label(frame, textvariable=self.trend_string,
              justify=LEFT).grid(row=1, column=0,pady=5, padx=20)
        self.task_bar = Label(frame, bg='white', textvariable=self.update_string,
                              height=1, width=25, anchor=W)
        self.task_bar.grid(row=2, column=0, sticky=EW)


        self.trend_loop()

    def trend_click(self,event):
        trend=str(event.widget.cget("text"))
        trend = trend.replace("#","%23")
        trend = trend.replace(" ","%20")
        url= "https://plus.google.com/s/"+ trend
        global root
        root.clipboard_clear()
        root.clipboard_append(url)
        webbrowser.open(url)

    def trend_loop(self):
        trend_list = self.get_plus_trends()
        temp_string = ''
        dict_list = [x for x in self.trend_dict.keys()]
        button_list = []
        index = 0
        for trend in trend_list:
            self.buttons[index].configure(text=trend)
            index+=1

        self.master.after(6000, self.trend_loop)
        self.update_string.set('Last Updated: %s' % time.strftime('%H:%M:%S', time.localtime()))
 
    
    def get_plus_trends(self):
        '''
        Returns a list of the top 10 trends on Google Plus
        '''
        site_file = urllib2.urlopen('https://plus.google.com/s/a')
        site_raw = site_file.read()
 
        a_list = re.findall('s/(\S*)/posts', site_raw)
        a_list = [urllib2.unquote(x) for x in a_list[:10]]
 
        return a_list
 
 

if __name__ == '__main__':    
    root = Tk()
    app = App(root)

    root.mainloop()