poor man's MPD validator

mpd_validator.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vim: set hls is ai et sw=4 sts=4 ts=8 nu ft=python:
#
# Copyright © 2014 drake <drake.guan@gmail.com>
#
# Distributed under terms of the MIT license.


# Built-in modules
import sys
# Additional modules
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# local modules



def main(argv=sys.argv[:]):
    """main entry."""
    if len(argv) < 2:
        print 'Usage: %s testing.mpd'
        return -1

    link = 'http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/dash/?page_id=605'
    data={'sendFile':'1'}
    for filename in argv[1:]:
        files={'File': open(filename, 'rb')}
        r = requests.post(link, data=data, files=files)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)
        output = soup.findAll(id='Output')[0]
        if 'DASH is valid' in output.text:
            print 'DASH is valid!'
        else:
            print 'DASH is invalid!'

    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())

@drakeguan - is this deprecated?