twitalert

twitalert.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3

import re
import codecs
import sys
import time
import os
import tkinter
from tkinter import messagebox
import platform
if platform.system() == "Windows":
    import winsound

# INPUT
#twituser = 'josifsk' #put username here
twituser = 'tarynsouthern'
whichlist = 'mypvt' #put your list here

# twitalert.py for alerting with notification for new tweets on twitter list
# it depends on installed wonderful twitter console application https://github.com/sferik/t
# by Aleksandar Josifoski http://twitter.com/josifsk
# Please set sound file for alarm bellow in line 63
# script can be started with: python3 twitalert.py


def strip_nasty_characters(input):
    if input:
        try:
            # Wide UCS-4 build
            myre = re.compile(u'['
                u'\U0001F300-\U0001F64F'
                u'\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF'
                u'\u2600-\u26FF\u2700-\u27BF]+',
                re.UNICODE)
        except re.error:
            # Narrow UCS-2 build
            myre = re.compile(u'('
                u'\ud83c[\udf00-\udfff]|'
                u'\ud83d[\udc00-\ude4f\ude80-\udeff]|'
                u'[\u2600-\u26FF\u2700-\u27BF])+',
                re.UNICODE)
        input = re.sub(myre, "", input)
    return input

i = 0

time.sleep(11) #change to greater number for example 33 (that is seconds) if you put script in your startup programs. How? google it, or use Linux.

while True:

    if not os.path.isfile('twitalerthistory.txt'):
        history = codecs.open('twitalerthistory.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')
        history.close()

    history = codecs.open('twitalerthistory.txt', 'r', 'utf-8')

    h = history.read()
    history.close()

    #os.system("t list timeline -l -r -n 15 %s/%s > temp.txt" % (twituser, whichlist))
    os.system("t timeline -l -r -n 15 %s > temp.txt" % (twituser))
    ftemp = codecs.open('temp.txt', 'r', 'utf-8')
    
    stemp = ftemp.read()
    ftemp.close()
    os.remove('temp.txt')

    lstemp = stemp.split('\n')
    del lstemp[-1]

    success = []

    for twit in lstemp:
        if not twit.split()[0] in h:
            success.append(twit)

    history = codecs.open('twitalerthistory.txt', 'a', 'utf-8')
    for twit in success:
        history.write(twit + ' |' + whichlist + '\n')

    history.close()

    if len(success) > 0:
        try:
            soundfile = '/data/music24/Evergrini/Stand_by_me.mp3' # <- put soundfile in same directory with script and enter it's name here, use wav file
            
            if platform.system() == "Linux":
                #os.system("mpv %s" % soundfile.strip())
                pass
                
            if platform.system() == "Windows":
                #winsound.PlaySound(soundfile.strip(), winsound.SND_FILENAME)
        except Exception as a:
            print(str(a))

        root = tkinter.Tk()
        root.withdraw()

        sout = ''
        for item in success:
            sout += ' '.join(item.split()[1:]) + '\n\n'
        sout = strip_nasty_characters(sout)
        messagebox.showinfo("twitalert", sout)
        
        root.destroy()        

    i += 1
    print(str(i) + ': twit alert working in background...')
    time.sleep(120) #recheck on every 2 min