getpins.py

getpins.py

# this script gets your most recent pinboard items 
# set your username and tag of interest
# it copies a markdown formatted list to the clipboard for easy export
# the script gets the most recent five items by default
# code by James Campbell @jamescampbell on twitter

import feedparser
import console
import clipboard
import webbrowser

#global defaults
used = "jamescampbell" # pinboard username

#functions

#this function gets inputs with custom prompts
def inputer(prompt):
	value = None
	while value is None:
		try:
			value = raw_input(prompt)
		except ValueError:
			print 'Please enter a tag'
			value = None
	return value

#get pinboard tag of interest
tag = inputer("what tag to find?: ")

#get number of recent pins with that tag
pincount = inputer("how many to find?: ")

#html string to get public rss pinboard
htmlstr = "http://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:" + used + "/t:" + tag + "?count=" + pincount

#make the doughnuts
d = feedparser.parse(htmlstr)
#print d['feed']['title'] #test working
htmllinks="recent links of interest \n"
i=0 # count for markdown list
for entry in d.entries:
	i = i + 1 # list number in output
	try:
		entrydesc = entry.description
	except:
		entrydesc = "no description"
	htmllinks += str(i) + " [" + entry.title + "]" + "(" + entry.link + ") \n" + entrydesc + "\n\n"
clipboard.set(htmllinks)
webbrowser.open('workflow://')