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A simple python script that creates an OPML file of a Twitter user's lists.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
A simple script that creates an OPML file of the RSS feeds to
a Twitter user's lists.
python twitter_list_to_opml.py mylesb
Copyright (c) 2010, Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>
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"""
__version__ = '0.1'
__project_name__ = 'TwitterListOPML'
__project_link__ = 'https://gist.github.com/1051517'
TWITTER_LISTS_URL = "http://api.twitter.com/1/%(username)s/lists.json"
TWITTER_LIST_FEED_URL = "http://api.twitter.com/1/%(username)s/lists/%(list)s/statuses.atom"
TWITTER_LIST_HTML_URL = "http://twitter.com/%(username)s/%(list)s"
OPML_START = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- OPML generated by TwitterListOPML -->
<opml version="1.1">
<head>
<title>Twitter Lists</title>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="Twitter Lists" title="Twitter Lists">"""
OPML_END = """ </outline>
</body>
</opml>"""
OPML_OUTLINE_FEED = '<outline text="%(title)s" title="%(title)s" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="%(html_url)s" xmlUrl="%(xml_url)s" />'
import sys
import urllib2
try:
import json
except ImportError:
import simplejson as json
def get_lists(url):
request = urllib2.Request(url)
request.add_header('User-Agent', '%s/%s +%s' % (
__project_name__, __version__, __project_link__
))
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
data = opener.open(request).read()
return json.loads(data)
def main(username):
t_lists = get_lists(TWITTER_LISTS_URL % {'username': username})
print OPML_START
for t_list in t_lists['lists']:
list_title = t_list['name']
list_html_url = TWITTER_LIST_HTML_URL % {'username': username, 'list': t_list['slug']}
list_xml_url = TWITTER_LIST_FEED_URL % {'username': username, 'list': t_list['slug']}
print OPML_OUTLINE_FEED % {'title': list_title, 'html_url': list_html_url, 'xml_url': list_xml_url}
print OPML_END
if __name__ == "__main__":
username = sys.argv[-1]
main(username)
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