def getRef(authorlist, year):
"""Returns a dictionary parsed from citeulike via YQL with title, reference etc"""
querydict = {"format":"json"}
querystring = "select item from xml where url='http://www.citeulike.org/rss/user/CameronNeylon/'"
querystring = querystring + ' and item.date LIKE "%s%%"' % year
for author in authorlist:
querystring = querystring + ' and item.creator LIKE "%%%s%%"' % author
querydict['q'] = querystring
query = urllib.urlencode(querydict)
result = urllib.urlopen('http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?%s'
% query)
jsonresult = json.load(result)
# The following will break if there is more than one result returned but will do for moment
try:
jsonitem = jsonresult.get('query', None).get('results', None
).get('RDF', None).get('item', None)
except:
return
citation = { 'authors' : jsonitem.get('creator', None),
'title' : jsonitem.get('title', None)[0],
'journal' : jsonitem.get('publicationName', None),
'volume' : jsonitem.get('volume', None),
'page' : jsonitem.get('startingPage', None),
'year' : year,
'link' : jsonitem.get('about', None)}
return citation
def translate(text, src, to):
args = urllib.urlencode({ 'langpair' : '%s|%s' % (src, to), 'v' : '1.0', 'q' : text })
url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate'
resp = simplejson.load(urllib2.urlopen(url, data=args))
return resp['responseData']['translatedText'].encode('utf8')