def save(self, message, update):
"""cache the message"""
display("saving message")
display("message = %s" % message)
display("update.text = %s" % update.text)
display("update = %s" % update.id)
fn = dt_new_save_filename()
fp = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), FILEPATH_SENT)
if not os.path.isdir(fp):
print "Error: can't save, invalid filepath"
print "fp = '%s'" % fp
sys.exit(1)
fpn = os.path.join(fp, fn)
with open(fpn, 'a') as f:
t = time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple())
line = u""
line = """{"message": "%s","status": "%s","date": %s}\n""" % (message, update.id, t)
print "line:\n\t<%s>" % line
f.write(line)
display("message saved")
return True
def send(msg):
"""send tweet message to twitter"""
t = Twi()
display("sending <%s>" % msg)
if t.send(msg):
t = None
return True
else:
t = None
print "Error: problem sending message\n\t'%s'" % (msg)
return False
def valid(self, message):
"""check if we can send a message"""
display("checking message")
if self.api:
len_msg = len(message)
display("message count = %s" % len(message))
if len_msg > 0 and len_msg <= 140:
return True
else:
print "%s" % len_msg
return False
else:
return False
def send(self, message, is_lyric=False):
"""message sent to twitter"""
message = u"%s" % message
if self.valid(message):
display("sending message")
try:
# nice hack by TomPerry a bug caused by twitter
# https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/12107
update = self.api.update_status(status=message, headers={'content-length': 0})
self.save(message, update)
print "send message\n%s" % message
except tweepy.error.TweepError, e: #tweepy.TweepError:
print "Error: We have a connection problem and cannot authenticate"
print "%s" % tweepy.TweepError
print e
self.api = None
sys.exit(1)
return True
def authenticate(self, consumer_key, consumer_secret, \
access_key, access_secret):
"""
connect to twitter using oauth. success will mena tweepy
has access to api.
"""
try:
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
self.api = tweepy.API(auth)
display("api = %s" % self.api)
display("connected")
except tweepy.error.TweepError, e: #tweepy.TweepError:
print "Error: We have a connection problem and cannot authenticate"
print "%s" % tweepy.TweepError
print e
auth = None
self.api = None
sys.exit(1)