Random Album Generator

getalbum.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6

import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
from optparse import OptionParser
import subprocess
import re
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import random

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
        self.get_data = False;
        self.quotes = []

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == "dt":
            if attrs[0][0] == 'class' and attrs[0][1] == 'quote':
                self.get_data = True
        pass

    def handle_endtag(self, data):
        pass

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.get_data:
            self.quotes.append(data)
            self.get_data = False

def getBandName():
    random_wiki_url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&list=random&rnnamespace=0&rnlimit=1"
    dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(random_wiki_url))

    for line in dom.getElementsByTagName('page'):
        return line.getAttributeNode('title').nodeValue

def getAlbumTitle():
    random_quote_url = "http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3"
    page = urllib.urlopen(random_quote_url).read()
    parser = MyHTMLParser()
    parser.feed(page)

    num_quotes = len(parser.quotes)
    quote = parser.quotes[random.randint(0, num_quotes)].rstrip('.')

    last_set = random.randint(3,5)
    words = quote.split()

    if last_set > len(words):
        last_set = len(words)

    return (" ").join(words[-last_set:])

def getAlbumImage():
    page = random.randint(1,200)
    url = "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.interestingness.getList&api_key=APIKEY&per_page=6&page=%d&format=rest" % (page)
    print url
    dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(url))

    elem = dom.getElementsByTagName('photo')[4]
    farm_id = elem.getAttributeNode('farm').nodeValue
    server_id = elem.getAttributeNode('server').nodeValue
    the_id = elem.getAttributeNode('id').nodeValue
    secret = elem.getAttributeNode('secret').nodeValue

    photo_url = "http://farm%s.staticflickr.com/%s/%s_%s_b.jpg" % (farm_id, server_id, the_id, secret)
    target_photo = 'band.jpg'
    subprocess.call(["wget", "-O", target_photo, photo_url])

def main():
    band_name = getBandName()
    album_title = getAlbumTitle()
    cover = getAlbumImage()

    from PIL import ImageFont
    from PIL import Image
    from PIL import ImageDraw

    fnt = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf",25)
    lineWidth = 20
    img = Image.open("band.jpg")
    imgbg = Image.new('RGBA', img.size, "#000000") # make an entirely black image
    mask = Image.new('L',img.size,"#000000")       # make a mask that masks out all
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)                     # setup to draw on the main image
    drawmask = ImageDraw.Draw(mask)                # setup to draw on the mask
    drawmask.line((0, lineWidth, img.size[0],lineWidth),
                  fill="#999999", width=100)        # draw a line on the mask to allow some bg through
    img.paste(imgbg, mask=mask)                    # put the (somewhat) transparent bg on the main
    draw.text((10,0), band_name, font=fnt, fill="#ffffff")      # add some text to the main
    draw.text((10,40), album_title, font=fnt, fill="#ffffff")      # add some text to the main
    del draw
    img.save("out.jpg","JPEG",quality=100)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
                

Random album generator hacked together in python. Replace the APIKEY in the Flickr URL with your API key.

Based on the rules:

• Album cover: random image from Flickr's interesting photos
• Artist (first line in title): Random wikipedia article title
• Album name: 3 or 5 words from random famous quote