def getHeadlines():
"""Gets headlines from The Technician (technicianonline.com)"""
# url = "http://www.technicianonline.com/se/1.312893-1.312893"
url = "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/news?format=xml"
rss = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen(url)).getroot()
articles = rss.findall("channel/item")[:3]
headlines = []
for i in xrange(0, 3):
headlines.append(
"{0}:\n\t{1}... \n\t{2}".format(
articles[i].find("title").text,
articles[i].find("description").text,
tiny.tiny_url(articles[i].find("link").text)[7:],
)
)
return headlines
def checkWoot(event, force=True):
'''Checks woot.com for the latest deal. force says whether to report the deal if it hasn't changed since the last check.'''
global latestTitle
global latestPrice
global soldout
try:
rss = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen(url)).getroot() # Get the woot RSS feed and prepare to parse it
except:
return
title = rss.findall("channel/item/title")[0].text
price = rss.findall("channel/item/{http://www.woot.com/}price")[0].text
soldout = rss.findall("channel/item/{http://www.woot.com/}soldoutpercentage")[0].text
soldout = 100 - (float(soldout) * 100) # In the feed item, soldout is a decimal percent
buylink = rss.findall("channel/item/{http://www.woot.com/}purchaseurl")[0].text
buylink = tiny.tiny_url(url=buylink)
if latestTitle == title and force != True: # Don't report the deal if it hasn't changed since last time
return
latestTitle = title
latestPrice = price
event.reply("Woot! - %s --- %s --- %s%% left! --- Purchase: %s" % (unicode(latestTitle), unicode(latestPrice), unicode(soldout), buylink))
