def search_for(query):
args = {'q': query, 'page_limit': '9', 'page': '1', "apikey": "88c6ww77pac55ybxsn5dmhqp"}
rt_api = "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json"
myScraper = PyAl.Request(rt_api, args)
theResult = myScraper.request.json
return theResult['movies']
def doSearch():
q = sys.argv[1:]
q = ' '.join(q)
if len(q) < 5:
return
requestList = [
"Operation=ItemSearch", "SearchIndex=KindleStore", "Sort=relevancerank"
]
# requestList.append(urllib.urlencode({"Keywords": q}))
# kw = q.replace(" ", ",")
# requestList.append("Keywords=%s" % kw)
requestDict = encodeRequestList(requestList, "ItemIds", keywords=q)
searchRequest = PyAl.Request("http://webservices.amazon.co.uk/onca/xml",
requestDict)
soup = searchRequest.souper()
resultsFeedback = PyAl.Feedback()
if soup.find("error"):
e = soup.error.message.string
resultsFeedback.add(PyAl.Item(title="Bad Request", subtitle=e))
else:
asins = soup.find_all("asin")
for asin in asins:
aResult = getData(asin.string)
resultItem = PyAl.Item()
resultItem.fromDictionary(aResult)
resultsFeedback.add(resultItem)
print resultsFeedback
def cacheIcon(url):
iconRequest = PyAl.Request(url)
covercache = PyAl.volatile("covercache")
if not os.path.exists(covercache):
os.makedirs(covercache)
(_, filename) = os.path.split(url)
iconPath = os.path.join(covercache, filename)
with open(iconPath, "wb") as f:
f.write(iconRequest.request.content)
return iconPath
def getData(asin):
requestList = [
"Operation=ItemLookup",
"ItemId=%s" % asin,
]
requestDict = encodeRequestList(requestList, "Medium")
itemRequest = PyAl.Request("http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml",
requestDict)
soup = itemRequest.souper()
try:
imageURL = soup.find("smallimage").url.string
imagePath = cacheIcon(imageURL)
except Exception:
imagePath = "icon.png"
try:
link = soup.find("detailpageurl").string
except Exception:
link = "http://www.amazon.com/dp/%s" % asin
try:
title = soup.find("title").string
except Exception:
title = "Title Missing"
try:
author = soup.find("author").string
except Exception:
author = "Author Missing"
try:
price = soup.find("listprice").formattedprice.string
except Exception:
price = "Price Missing"
returnDict = {
"uid": asin,
"arg": link,
"title": title,
"subtitle": u"%s\u2014%s" % (author, price),
"icon": imagePath
}
return returnDict
