main.py

'''
referenced pages

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/845058/how-to-get-line-count-cheaply-in-python
'''

import argparse
import sys
import requests
import simplejson
from mailer import Mailer, Message
import time
 
URL = 'http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails/?appids='
FROM_ADDR = 'copeland3300@yahoo.com'
TO_ADDR = ['copeland3300+pythonmessage@gmail.com']

def send_email(msg):
    '''
    Sends the provided message to global recipients
    '''
    # change the server and port to match what you want
    sender = Mailer('smtp.mail.yahoo.com', port=587, use_tls=True)
    sender.login(FROM_ADDR, '')
    sender.send(msg)
def create_message(subject, body):
    '''
    Returns a MIME message for sending
    '''
    msg = Message()
    msg.From = FROM_ADDR
    msg.To = TO_ADDR
    msg.Subject = subject
    msg.Body = body
    return msg
def get_game_info(appid):
    '''
    Returns a dictionary of info about specified game
    '''
    aid = str(appid)
    info = {}
    req = requests.get(URL + str(aid))
    if req.json()[aid]['success'] == True:
        return req.json()[aid]['data']['name'], aid
    else:
        return 'none', aid
    #return 'nunya', 100

def main():
    '''
    The main function obviously
    '''
    #args = get_args()
    #if not args.appid:
        #print 'Please specify a game ID'
        #sys.exit(1)
    stats = []
    starttime = time.time()
    outfile = open('data.txt', 'w')
    for i in range(50,100):
        info, gid = get_game_info(i)
        if info != 'none':
            #print gid, info
            outfile.write(gid + ' ' + info)
            outfile.write('\n')
    outfile.close()
    tooktime = time.time() - starttime





    stats.append('Time taken to scrape: ' + str(tooktime))
    stats.append('Number of Items: ' + str(sum(1 for line in open('data.txt', 'r'))))

    send_email(create_message('done scraping', '\n'.join(stats)))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()