chir.py

- twitter bot that earns bitcoin via ppc links
git clone git://git.acid.vegas/chir.py.git
functions.py (2127B)
      1 #!/usr/bin/env python
      2 # Chir.py Twitter Bot - Developed by acidvegas in Python (https://acid.vegas/chir.py)
      3 # functions.py
      4 
      5 import random
      6 import re
      7 import urllib.request
      8 
      9 import feedparser
     10 
     11 import config
     12 import debug
     13 
     14 def coinurl(url):
     15     source  = urllib.request.urlopen('https://coinurl.com/api.php?uuid=%s&url=%s' % (config.coinurl_uuid, url))
     16     charset = source.headers.get_content_charset()
     17     if charset : return source.read().decode(charset)
     18     else       : return source.read().decode()
     19 
     20 def get_news(): # This is very sloppy and needs some work.
     21     news_list      = list()
     22     sport          = random.choice(list(config.news_feeds.keys()))
     23     sport_news     = feedparser.parse(config.news_feeds[sport])
     24     sport_keywords = config.news_keywords[sport]
     25     for item in sport_news.entries:
     26         description = strip_html(item.summary)
     27         if ') -- ' in description:
     28             cutoff      = description.split(') -- ')[0]
     29             description = description.split(cutoff)[1]
     30         if ') - ' in description:
     31             cutoff      = description.split(') - ')[0]
     32             description = description.split(cutoff)[1]
     33         description = description.replace('*',  '')
     34         description = description.replace('\'', '')
     35         description = description.replace('"',  '')
     36         description = description.replace('--', '-')
     37         description = description.replace('  ', ' ')
     38         for word in sport_keywords:
     39             if word in description.lower():
     40                 description = re.sub(word, '#' + word, description, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
     41         if len(description) > 118:
     42             description = description[:118]
     43             split       = description.split()
     44             description = description.split(split[len(split)-1])[0][:-1] + '... '
     45         try:
     46             link = coinurl(item.link)
     47         except Exception as ex:
     48             debug.error('Error occured creating PPC link!', ex)
     49         else:
     50             description = description + ' ' + link
     51             news_list.append(description)
     52     return news_list
     53 
     54 def strip_html(source):
     55     return re.compile(r'<.*?>').sub('', source)