Query Twine

query_twine_example_daemon.py

'''
An example daemon to query twine and log results.

Gabe Gaster, Datascope Analytics, 2014
gabe@datascopeanalytics.com
'''

import requests, json, time

twine_id = "00000----------" # twine id
URL = "https://twine.cc/%s/rt?cached=1" % twine_id

# see: http://community.supermechanical.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7/api/p1
# cookie copied from result of :
# wget -o log.txt --quiet -O temp.txt --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt --no-check-certificate --post-data="email=REPLACEWITHYOUREMAIL&password=REPLACEWITHYOURPASS" 
# make your user_id a cookie
COOKIE = {'user_id':"NTAxMQ==|1390456333|8d6021e75575f15d8021363c5d850801435e95aa"}

def log(temp):
    line = (map(str,(time.time(),temp)))
    line = ",".join(line) + "\n"
    with open("temp.log",'a') as f:
        f.write(line)
    print line[:-1]

def request():
    r = requests.get(URL,cookies=COOKIE)
    data = json.loads(r.content)
    age = data['age']
    temp= data['values'][1][1]/100
    return age, temp

def main():
    age = 10**10
    while 1:
        new_age, temp = request()
        if new_age < age:
            log(temp)
        age = new_age
        time.sleep(60)

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()