post.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
posts to thoughts.page
"""
import argparse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import sys
from urllib import request, parse

SESSION_ID = 'get the session-id from the session_id cookie'

TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Warsaw'

YOUR_PAGE = 'https://linktoyour.thoughts.page'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Posts and manages thoughts on thoughts.page.')
parser.add_argument('thought', help='thought you want to post.')
parser.add_argument('--reply-to', default=None, dest='reply_to_id', help='id of post to reply to')
parser.add_argument('--delete', default=None, dest='delete_id', help='id of post to delete. note that selecting this will not allow you to post at the same time')

def get_post_by_id(id, do_cleanup=True, as_text=False):
	"""Returns a post by ID."""
	# when there's no api, you gotta get creative!
	with request.urlopen(YOUR_PAGE) as page:
		page_soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read(), 'html.parser')
		post = page_soup.find('div', {'id': str(id)})
		if do_cleanup:
			post.attrs.clear()
			#details = post.find('details')
			#if details:
			#	details.replaceWith('')
		if as_text: #only works on undefined.thoughts.page, whoops. change this to just look for <p> i guess
			post_text = post.find('div', {'class': 'thoughtcontent'})
			return str(post_text.text)
	return str(post)

def get_latest_post_id():
	"""Returns the ID of the latest thought."""
	# hacky, works only on my page
	with request.urlopen(YOUR_PAGE) as page:
		page_soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read(), 'html.parser')
		post = page_soup.find('span', {'class': 'thoughtid'})
	return str(post.text[1:])

args = parser.parse_args()

thought = args.thought
reply_to = args.reply_to_id
delete_id = args.delete_id
if reply_to == 'latest':
	reply_to = get_latest_post_id()
if delete_id == 'latest':
	delete_id = get_latest_post_id()

if delete_id:
	try:
		post = get_post_by_id(delete_id, as_text=True)
	except:
		print("\033[0;32mnonexistent id \033[0m" + delete_id + "\033[0;32m, or you've lost connection\033[0m")
		quit(1)
	print("contents:\n" + post)
	yesno = input('are you sure you want to remove this post? [y/N] ')
	if not yesno.lower() == 'y':
		print("keeping post.")
		quit(0)
	req = request.Request('https://thoughts.page/api/delete_thought/' + delete_id, data={}, headers={'Cookie': 'session_id=' + SESSION_ID})
	resp = request.urlopen(req)
	print("\033[0;32mdeleted post \033[0m" + delete_id + "\033[0;32m.\033[0m")
	quit(0)

if reply_to:
	reply_header = "<span class='replyheader'>reply to <a href='" + YOUR_PAGE + "/#" + str(reply_to) + "'>thought \#" + str(reply_to) + "</a>:</span>"
	reply_header = reply_header + "<details><summary>see previous post</summary>" + get_post_by_id(reply_to) + "</details>"
	thought = reply_header + "\n" + thought

try:
	data = parse.urlencode({'thought': thought, 'timezone': TIMEZONE}).encode()
	req =  request.Request('https://thoughts.page/post', data=data, headers={'Cookie': 'session_id=' + SESSION_ID})
	resp = request.urlopen(req)
except:
	print("\033[0;31mfailed to post!\033[0m")
	quit(1)

print("\033[0;32mposted successfully!\033[0m")