simplegeo-com.foursquare.mager.checkins.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import simplegeo
import time
import feedparser

from simplegeo import Client, Record, APIError

MY_OAUTH_KEY = '[insert_your_oauth_key_here]'
MY_OAUTH_SECRET = '[insert_your_oauth_secret_here]'
MY_LAYER = 'com.foursquare.[insert_foursquare_username].checkins'

records = []

def main():
    client = Client(MY_OAUTH_KEY, MY_OAUTH_SECRET)

    d = feedparser.parse('[insert_your_foursquare_rss_feed_here]')

    for item in d['items']:

        if 'point' in item:
           coords = item['point'].split()
           lat = coords[0]
           lon = coords[1]

        record = Record(
            layer=MY_LAYER,
            id=item['guid'],
            lat=lat,
            lon=lon,
            created=int(time.mktime(item['updated_parsed'])),
            name=item['title'],
            venue_link=item['links'][0]['href']
        )                

        records.append(record)
        print(records)

    for chunk in chunker(records, 90):
        client.add_records(MY_LAYER, chunk)
        print "%s records added" % len(chunk)

def chunker(seq, size):
    return (seq[pos:pos + size] for pos in xrange(0, len(seq), size))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()