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A 200 lines Twitter client in Python featuring ballon notification on GNOME
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Your account information
username=""
password=""
# screen_resolution is used for balloon positioning
screen_resolution=1024,768
# Minimum update_interval under Twitter API restriction is 60*60/70=51.4
update_interval=52
# Balloon will disapear after notify_timeout seconds
notify_timeout=10
import os
import sys
import urllib2
from xml.dom.minidom import parse
import re
import webbrowser
import time
import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import gobject
import pynotify
tmpdir="/tmp/twitter-notifier/"
favicon_url = "http://assets3.twitter.com/images/favicon.ico"
update_url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"
timeline_url ='http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml'
auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(
'Twitter API', 'http://twitter.com/',
username, password)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
tagText = lambda node, tagName: \
node.getElementsByTagName(tagName)[0].firstChild.nodeValue
def update(text):
print >>sys.stderr, time.strftime("[%H:%M:%S] "), "updating"
req = urllib2.Request(update_url)
req.add_header("User-Agent", "TwitterNotifier http://yanbe.org/twitter-notifier/")
req.add_header("X-Twitter-Client", "TwitterNotifier")
req.add_header("X-Twitter-Client-URL", "http://yanbe.org/twitter-notifier/")
req.add_header("X-Twitter-Client-Version", "0.1")
req.add_data("source=twnotifier&status="+text)
res = parse(file=urllib2.urlopen(req))
last_id = 0
twits = []
def check_update():
print >>sys.stderr, time.strftime("[%H:%M:%S] "), "checking update"
gobject.timeout_add(update_interval*1000, check_update)
r = urllib2.Request(timeline_url)
global last_id
r.add_data("since_id="+str(last_id))
e = parse(file=urllib2.urlopen(r))
for s in reversed(e.getElementsByTagName("status")):
if last_id and int(tagText(s, "id")) > last_id:
screen_name = tagText(s, "screen_name")
text = tagText(s, "text")
source = tagText(s,"source")
icon_url = tagText(s,"profile_image_url")
twits.append((screen_name, text, source, icon_url))
#show_notify(screen_name, text, source, icon_url)
print >>sys.stderr, "%s: %s from %s" % (screen_name, text, source)
last_id = int(tagText(s, "id"))
user_page_tmpl = '<a href="http://twitter.com/%s/with_friends">%s</a>'
last_notify=None
def show_notify():
gobject.timeout_add(notify_timeout*1000+1000, show_notify)
global twits
if len(twits) == 0:
return
screen_name, text, source, icon_url = twits.pop(0)
url = re.search('http://\S+', text, re.UNICODE)
reply = re.search('@(\w+)', text)
if url:
url = url.group(0)
a = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (url, url)
text = text.replace(url, a)
if reply:
reply = reply.group(1)
a = user_page_tmpl % (reply, reply)
text = text.replace(reply, a)
n = pynotify.Notification(screen_name, '%s from %s' % (text, source), get_icon(screen_name, icon_url))
n.set_hint("x", screen_resolution[0]-50)
n.set_hint("y", screen_resolution[1]-30)
n.add_action("@%s " % screen_name, "Reply", edit_cb)
n.add_action("http://twitter.com/%s/with_friends" % screen_name, "Browse", browse_url)
n.set_timeout(notify_timeout*1000)
n.show()
global last_notify
last_notify=n
def browse_url(n, url):
webbrowser.open(url)
def get_icon(screen_name, icon_url):
icon_url = icon_url.replace("s3.amazonaws.com:", "s3.amazonaws.com")
if not os.access(tmpdir, os.F_OK):
os.mkdir(tmpdir)
filename = tmpdir+screen_name
if not os.access(filename, os.F_OK):
f = file(filename, "wb")
f.write(urllib2.urlopen(icon_url).read())
return filename
def quit_cb(widget, data = None):
if data:
data.set_visible(False)
gtk.main_quit()
def last_cb(wigdet, data = None):
global last_notify
if last_notify:
last_notify.show()
def edit_cb(widget, data = None):
text = gtk.Entry()
text.connect("activate", enter_cb)
if data:
text.set_text(data)
win = gtk.Window()
win.add(text)
win.set_size_request(600,25)
win.set_title("What are you doing?")
win.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
text.show()
win.show()
def enter_cb(widget, data = None):
widget.parent.hide()
update(widget.get_text())
def refresh_cb(widget, data = None):
notify()
def home_cb(widget, data = None):
browse_url(None, "http://twitter.com/home")
def popup_menu_cb(widget, button, time, data = None):
if button == 3:
if data:
data.show_all()
data.popup(None, None, None, 3, time)
def activate_icon_cb(widget, data = None):
msgBox = gtk.MessageDialog(parent = None, buttons = gtk.BUTTONS_OK,
message_format = "TwitterNotifier")
msgBox.run()
msgBox.destroy()
def main():
pynotify.init("TwitterNotifier")
statusIcon = gtk.StatusIcon()
menu = gtk.Menu()
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_ABOUT)
menuItem.connect('activate', activate_icon_cb)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_HOME)
menuItem.connect('activate', home_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_REFRESH)
menuItem.connect('activate', refresh_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_UNDO)
menuItem.connect('activate', last_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_EDIT)
menuItem.connect('activate', edit_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
menuItem = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_QUIT)
menuItem.connect('activate', quit_cb, statusIcon)
menu.append(menuItem)
statusIcon.set_from_file(get_icon("twitter", favicon_url))
statusIcon.set_tooltip("TwitterNotifier")
statusIcon.connect('popup-menu', popup_menu_cb, menu)
statusIcon.connect('activate', edit_cb, None)
statusIcon.set_visible(True)
gobject.timeout_add(1000, check_update)
gobject.timeout_add(4000, show_notify)
gtk.main()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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