def tweet_earthquake(self, earthquake_key):
# Always call this method after adding to the DB.
earthquake = db.get(earthquake_key)
if earthquake.magnitude <= 0.0 and len(earthquake.location) > 0:
cnf = config.Config()
t_creds = cnf.twitter_credentials()
t = Twitter(t_creds['username'], t_creds['password'])
bitly_creds = cnf.bitly_credentials()
url = "http://zemjotresi.appspot.com/zemjotres/%s" % earthquake_key
short_url = t.shorten_url(url)
if short_url['good']:
short_url = short_url['url']
else:
logging.error("Coulnd't shorten url (%s). Data: %s." % (url, short_url))
return False
template_id = int(round(random.uniform(1, 2)))
template_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../template/tweets/tweet_%s.txt" % template_id)
tweet = template.render(template_path, {'earthquake': earthquake, 'short_url': short_url})
status = t.update_status(tweet)
if status['good']:
logging.info("Tweeted status_id: %s !" % status["id"])
elif status['good'] == False and status["error"] == 403:
logging.error("Couldn't tweet status for (%s). Exceeded update limit, got message: %s!" % (earthquake_key, status['message']))
else:
logging.error("Couldn't tweet status for (%s). Got error %s with data: %s!" % (earthquake_key, status['error'], status['data']))
else:
logging.info("Not tweeting status for (%s)!" % earthquake_key)
