grab a random image. hook it up to your irc client for good times!

randimage.py

#
# Here's my alias:
# trout = "me slaps $0 around a bit with a large trout";
# image = "exec -out python ~/randimage.py \"$-\"";
# "image-arg" = "exec -out python ~/randimage.py -showargs \"$-\"";

import sys
import urllib
import simplejson
import random

BITLY_LOGIN = "YOUR LOGIN GOES HERE"
BITLY_APIKEY = "YOUR KEY GOES HERE"

sys.argv.pop(0)
if (len(sys.argv) > 0 and sys.argv[0] == "-showargs"):
    show_args = True
    sys.argv.pop(0)
else:
    show_args = False

if (len(sys.argv) > 0):
    term = sys.argv[0]
else:
    term = sys.stdin.read()

google_url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q="
bitly_url = "http://api.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=%s&apiKey=%s&format=txt&longUrl=" % (BITLY_LOGIN, BITLY_APIKEY)

res = urllib.urlopen(google_url + urllib.quote(term))
results = simplejson.load(res)

try:
    image_url = random.choice(results["responseData"]["results"])["url"]
except:
    sys.exit(0)

short = urllib.urlopen(bitly_url + image_url).read()

if show_args:
    print "[image (%s)] %s" % (term.strip(), short.strip())
else:
    print "[image] " + short.strip()