tidypub

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib
import urllib2
import re
import sys

URL = 'http://tidypub.org/'
r = urllib2.urlopen(URL)
for l in r.readlines():
    m = re.search(r"<input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='(.*)' />", l)
    if m:
        csrf = m.group(1)
        break
else:
    print 'could not load csrf token'
    sys.exit(1)

text = sys.stdin.read()

params = {'text': text, 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrf, 'some_in': '', 'title': ''}
if len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[1] == '-t':
    params['title'] = sys.argv[2]
data = urllib.urlencode(params)
req = urllib2.Request(URL, data, {'Cookie': 'csrftoken=%s'%csrf})
try:
    p = urllib2.urlopen(req)
except:
    print 'an error occured'
    sys.exit(1)

print p.geturl()