Creates a Buffer-friendly "Title :: URL"-formatted post using the URL in the clipboard, then sends the whole mess to Buffer. This is meant for use with Pythonista on iOS

BufferClipboardUrl.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Coded poorly by Brett Kelly
# http://nerdgap.com
# @inkedmn

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2 
import urllib 
import re 
import clipboard 
import urlparse 
import notification 
import webbrowser

# Sent to Buffer between title and url
post_sep = " :: " 

def makeBufferUrl(url, title):
	"""Cobble together the Buffer URL containing our datums"""
	# em dashes avoid escaping in the quote() call, so
	# maybe we just get rid of them.
	if '—' in title:
		title = title.replace('—', '--')
	title += post_sep
	out = "bufferapp://"
	# UTF-8 encode and escape the page title
	t = urllib.quote(title.encode('utf-8'), safe='')
	out += "?t=%s" % t
	# Escape the URL
	u = urllib.quote(url, safe='')
	out += "&u=%s" % u
	return out

# Grab url (or whatever) from the clipboard
u = clipboard.get()

# this won't throw an exception ever, apparently:
# http://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html
parts = urlparse.urlparse(u)

if parts.scheme not in ['http', 'https']:
	# Not the droid we're looking for
	# Notify the user and exit.
	notification.schedule("Clipboard is not a URL")
	print u
	print 
	raise SystemExit	

else:
	# Yes, yes, I know. Parsing HTML with regexes is stupid.
	# It's ok because I'm not a real programmer.
	p = re.compile("<title>(.*)</title>", re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL)
	try:
		# open and read the web page
		r = urllib2.urlopen(clipboard.get())
		h = r.read()
		# find and extract the title
		t = p.search(h).group(1)
		# construct the buffer URL
		burl = makeBufferUrl(u, t.strip())
		# open the Buffer URL (opens the Buffer app)
		webbrowser.open(burl)
	except Exception, e:
		# Something pooped the bed opening or reading the URL
		# This could either print this generic message
		# or just spit out whatever was on the clipboard.
		print u
		# print '[Title Unavailable]'