Grove Export

export.py

import json
import urllib2
import base64


def main():
    # Auth info
    username = raw_input('Username: ')
    password = raw_input('Password: ')
    if not username and password:
        print 'Username and password required for export.'
        return
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
    
    # Helper to fetch from API
    def get_resp(url):
        req = urllib2.Request(url)
        req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
        r = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        raw = r.read()
        resp = json.loads(raw)
        r.close()
        return resp, raw
    
    # Helper to get all messages for a channel
    def get_messages(channel, until_id=None):
        print '.'
        url = 'https://grove.io/api/channels/%s/messages' % channel.get('id')
        if until_id:
            url = '%s?until_id=%s' % (url, until_id)

        resp, raw = get_resp(url)
        if not resp:
            return
        
        # Save messages to file
        f = open('%s.json' % channel.get('name'), 'w')
        f.write(raw)
        f.close()
        
        # Moare messages!
        until = resp[0].get('id')
        print 'until_id:', until
        get_messages(channel, until_id=until)

    resp, raw = get_resp('https://grove.io/api/auth')
    orgs = resp.get('organizations')
    print 'Found %s organization(s) to export.' % len(orgs)
    
    for org in orgs:
        print '\nExporting organization:', org.get('name')
        
        try:
            resp, raw = get_resp('https://grove.io/api/organizations/%s' % org.get('id'))
        except urllib2.HTTPError, ex:
            print 'Error: most likely this org has been suspended.'
            continue
        
        channels = resp.get('channels')
        print 'Found %s channel(s) to export.' % len(channels)
        for channel in channels:
            print 'Exporting channel:', channel.get('irc_name')
            get_messages(channel)
            

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print 'Exporting Grove data.\n'
    main()
    print '\nExport completed.'

as noted by bilalhusain, line 10 does not do what leah intends for it to do. password may still be blank.

Line 37 actually overwrites the dump on each pagination. It should use 'a' for append. Got a working fork here: https://gist.github.com/d3eb3c06d6eb0c741684