A Planetside 2 Python bot that periodically told me what the last event was that happened on the server I play on via a text to speech engine called pyttsx and prints it to the console.

planetside_events.py

import requests
import pyttsx
import time

__author__ = 'Lyndon'
# SOE documentation: https://census.soe.com/


# Faction IDs
def get_faction(id):
    return {
        "1": "Vanu Sovereignty",
        "2": "New Conglomerate",
        "3": "Terran Republic"
    }[id]


# Zone IDs
def get_zone(id):
    return {
        "2": "Indar",
        "6": "Amerish",
        "8": "Esamir"
    }[id]


def get_facility_name(zone_id, facility_id):
    if get_zone(zone_id) == "Indar":
        r = requests.get("http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/indarmap/?id=" + facility_id + "&c:show=facility")
        facility_obj = r.json()
        return facility_obj["indarmap_list"][0]["facility"]["en"]
    elif get_zone(zone_id) == "Amerish":
        r = requests.get("http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/amerishmap/?id=" + facility_id + "&c:show=facility")
        facility_obj = r.json()
        return facility_obj["amerishmap_list"][0]["facility"]["en"]
    elif get_zone(zone_id) == "Esamir":
        r = requests.get("http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/esamirmap/?id=" + facility_id + "&c:show=facility")
        facility_obj = r.json()
        return facility_obj["esamirmap_list"][0]["facility"]["en"]


# Get server names
def __get_server_dictionary():
    r = requests.get("https://census.soe.com/s:LyndonArmitage/get/ps2-beta/world/")
    server_obj = r.json()
    dic = {}
    for world in server_obj["world_list"]:
        dic[world["server_id"]] = world["name"]["en"]
    return dic


server_names = __get_server_dictionary()
engine = pyttsx.init()


def lastEventOnServer(world_id="13"):
    r = requests.get("https://census.soe.com/s:LyndonArmitage/get/ps2-beta/world_event/" + world_id)
    event_obj = r.json()
    if event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["faction_new"] == event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["faction_old"]:
        faction_name = get_faction(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["faction_new"])
        facility_name = get_facility_name(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["zone_id"], event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["facility_id"])
        zone = get_zone(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["zone_id"])
        result = "The " + faction_name + " defended " + facility_name + ", on " + zone + "."
        print result
        engine.say(result)
        engine.runAndWait()
    else:
        faction_new_name = get_faction(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["faction_new"])
        faction_old_name = get_faction(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["faction_old"])
        facility_name = get_facility_name(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["zone_id"], event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["facility_id"])
        zone = get_zone(event_obj["world_event_list"][0]["zone_id"])
        result = "The " + faction_old_name + " lost control of " + facility_name + " to The " + faction_new_name + ", on " + zone + "."
        print result
        engine.say(result)
        engine.runAndWait()


def speakStats(character_id):
    url = "http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/character/" + character_id + "?c:show=certs,experience,name"
    r = requests.get(url)
    obj = r.json()
    name = obj["character_list"][0]["name"]["first"]
    til_next_cert = obj["character_list"][0]["certs"]["percentagetonext"]
    rank = obj["character_list"][0]["experience"][0]["rank"]
    result = name + " is rank " + rank + ", and is " + til_next_cert + " percent of their way to a new cert."
    print result
    engine.say(result)
    engine.runAndWait()


doCheck = 1
speakInterval = 60 * 5  # Every 5 mins
statsInterval = 60 * 60  # Every 60 mins
interval = 60  # Interval to iterate at
lastSpeakTime = time.clock() - speakInterval
lastStatsTime = time.clock() - statsInterval

engine.setProperty('rate', 150)

while doCheck:
    # print time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime())
    now = time.clock()
    if now - lastSpeakTime >= speakInterval:
        lastEventOnServer()
        lastSpeakTime = time.clock()
    if now - lastStatsTime >= statsInterval:
        speakStats("5428031585351466737")
        lastStatsTime = time.clock()
    time.sleep(interval)