A Python client API to consume Yahoo! Meme’s webservices on YQL.
Download the source code here on Github, unzip/untar the archive, go to the extracted directory and type in the command line:
$ sudo python setup.py installYou can also install the latest stable release from PyPI by typing:
$ sudo easy_install meme-pyCheck it out some simple examples (for more please check examples.py file):
from meme import Meme
Meme.Posts.popular()
from meme import Meme
posts = Meme.Posts.search('meme rocks')
print '---------- Results for "meme rocks" ----------'
for post in posts:
print 'Content: %s' % post.content
print 'Caption: %s' % post.caption
print '----------------------------------------------'
Make sure to check these cool Meme search tips!
from meme import Meme
meme = Meme.get(name='guilherme_chapiewski')
print '========== guilherme_chapiewski Meme =========='
print meme.title
print meme.description
print meme.url
from meme import Meme
meme = Meme.get(name='john')
print meme.following(count=20) # people that "john" is following
print meme.followers(count=20) # people that follows "john"
from meme import Meme
meme = Meme.get(name='john')
posts = meme.posts()
print '---------- Results ----------'
for post in posts:
print 'Type: %s' % post.type
print 'Repost count: %s' % post.repost_count
print 'Original: %s' % post.is_original # created by "john" (True) or reposted (False)
print '----------------------------------------------'
from meme import Meme
meme = Meme.get(name='john')
posts = meme.posts()
latest_post = posts[0]
print '---------- Results ----------'
for post in latest_post.activity():
print 'Type: %s' % post.type #repost or commment
print 'Comment: %s' % post.comment
print 'GUID: %s' % post.guid
print '----------------------------------------------'
from meme import Meme
meme = Meme.get(name='john')
posts = meme.most_reposted_posts(media='text', count=2)
print '---------- Results ----------'
for post in latest_post.activity():
print 'Type: %s' % post.type #repost or commment
print 'Comment: %s' % post.comment
print 'GUID: %s' % post.guid
print 'repost_count: %s' % post.repost_count
print '----------------------------------------------'
Go to the Issues section and please provide as much detail as you can.
Contributors are very welcome :) Go ahead and fork the project here on Github and “request pull” when you are done.
Please try to follow PEP-8 rules and include unit tests!
- Diogo Baeder (@diogobaeder)
- Hugo Lopes Tavares (@hltbra)
- Matheus Mendes (@bigodines)
- Pedro Valente (@pedrovalente)
If you want to contribute and still have some questions or if you are still having trouble using meme-py, join the meme-dev group at Yahoo! Groups where you will find other developers that use Yahoo! Meme and APIs for many programming languages.
Meme (http://meme.yahoo.com) is a light-blogging tool – which means that it is not as small and simple as Twitter (micro-blogging) and not as big and full-featured as Wordpress (standard blogging) – created by Yahoo! in Brazil.
For more information about Yahoo! Meme please go to:
- Meme’s Meme (Meme news and general community updates)
- Meme API’s Meme (Meme news about API improvements)
- About Yahoo! Meme
- Meme API Guide