Post the currently playing song automatically to twitter, use as part of a service automator workflow

itunes_to_tweet.py

'''
Automatically post the currently playing track to twitter

Create an Automator service workflow to use
'''
import sys 
from appscript import * 
from os import popen
username=''
password=''
it = app('iTunes')
tags = ['name', 'artist']
if it.isrunning():
    state = it.player_state.get()
    if state.name == 'playing':
        song_details = [eval('it.current_track.' + tag + '.get()') for tag in tags]
        song_details = dict(zip(tags, song_details))
        url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' 
        message = 'listening to %s by %s' %(song_details['name'], song_details['artist'])
        curl = 'curl -s -u %s:%s -d status="%s" %s' % (username,password,message,url)
        pipe = popen(curl, 'r')
    else: 
        print "Itunes is currently:", state.name