Push URLs posted in a given Slack channel to Pinboard

slack-to-pinboard.py

from flask import Flask, request
import pinboard, urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/",methods=["POST"])
def slackin():
        data = request.form
        url = []
        tag = []
        #parse slack message text with lazy queries
        
        list_text = data['text'].encode('utf-8').split(' ')
        for l in list_text:
                if l.startswith('<http'):
                        l = l.replace('<','').replace('>','')
                        url.append(l)
                #hacky way to add tags if you want to use tags in chat
                if l.startswith('#'):
                        l = l.replace('#','').encode('utf-8')
                        tag.append(l)
                else:
                    desc.append()
        # if listening on a Slack channel with other chatter, don't try to parse any chats that don't have URLS
        if url[0]:
            soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url[0]))
            if soup.title.name is None:
                title = url[0]
            else:
                title = soup.title.string

            # who added this to your pinboard
            tag.append(data['user_name'].encode('utf-8'))
            pin_key = "YOUR PINBOARD KEY HERE KIND STRANGER READING MY CODE"

            pb = pinboard.Pinboard(pin_key)
            addpost = pb.posts.add(url = url[0], description = title, tags = tag, extended = data['text'].encode('utf-8'))
        
            # not ideal but for now this is fine, like a dog drinking coffee surrounded by fire is fine this is fine
            if addpost:
                return 'added' + url[0]
            else:
                return 'not added, you are a bad human being'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()