syndicates private friend-feed groups with read-only public feeds

friendfeed_private_syndicator.py

# −*− coding: UTF−8 −*−
"""
quick/dirty private feed exposer
http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation
http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html
http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
http://labix.org/python-dateutil
"""
import settings
from settings import FF_BASE_URL, FF_API_BASE_URL, FF_REMOTE_KEY, FF_FEED, FF_NICKNAME, FF_CONSUMER_SECRET, OUTPUT_CACHE_DIR, INPUT_CACHE_DIR

import httplib2
import simplejson
import datetime
import PyRSS2Gen
from dateutil import parser
import re
import time

def strip_tags(value):
    """
    Returns the given HTML with all tags stripped.
    based on the django function of the same name
    """
    return re.sub(r'<[^>]*?>', '', value)

h = httplib2.Http(INPUT_CACHE_DIR)
h.add_credentials(FF_NICKNAME, FF_REMOTE_KEY)

while True:
    try:
        resp, serialized = h.request(FF_API_BASE_URL + '/feed/' + FF_FEED, "GET")
    except httplib2.HttpLib2Error:
        continue
    if resp['status']=='200':    if resp['status']=='200':
        content = simplejson.loads(serialized)
        items=[]
        for i in content['entries']:
            if i.has_key('comments') and \
                  len(i['comments']) and \
                  i['comments'][0].has_key('body'):
                description = i['comments'][0]['body']
            else:
                description = i['body']
            title = strip_tags(i['body']).split(' - ')[0]
            
            items.append(PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem(
                link = i['url'],
                guid = PyRSS2Gen.Guid(i['url']),
                description = description,
                pubDate = parser.parse(i['date']),
                title = title,
                author = i['from']['name']
            ))
        
        rss = PyRSS2Gen.RSS2(
            title = content['name'],
            link = FF_BASE_URL + '/' + FF_FEED,
            description = "friendfeed feed for %s" % content['name'],
            lastBuildDate = datetime.datetime.utcnow(),
            items = items
        )
        
        rss.write_xml(open(OUTPUT_CACHE_DIR+"/rss.xml", "w"))
    
    time.sleep(60)