gistfile1.py

import simplejson
import urllib2

GEMCUTTER_API_URL = "http://gemcutter.org/api/v1/"
API_KEY_URL = GEMCUTTER_API_URL + "api_key"
GEMS_URL = GEMCUTTER_API_URL + 'gems/'
GEM_SEARCH_URL = GEMCUTTER_API_URL + 'search.json?query='
 
class Gem(object):
    def __init__(self, jsoned_gem, format='json'):
        if format == 'raw':
            self.values = jsoned_gem
        else:
            self.values = simplejson.loads(jsoned_gem)
    def __str__(self): 
        return str(self.values)
    #todo dependencies
    
class Gemcutter(object):
    def gem(self, gem_name):
        try:
            f = urllib2.urlopen(GEMS_URL+gem_name+'.json')
            gem_info = f.read(40000)
            return Gem(gem_info)             
        except:
            return None