A bot used to tweet one Ludum Dare game per hour, over on Twitter at @LudumLegacy

gistfile1.txt

import json, pprint, subprocess, urllib, urllib2, re, sys
import json as simplejson
import urllib2
import xml.sax.saxutils
from getpass import getpass
from urllib import urlencode
import time, getopt

#sys.path = [ #Load of stupid path amendments for Dreamhost ]
	
import tinyurl, twitter, tweepy

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#BEGINS
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json_data=open('ludumdata.json').read()

data = json.loads(json_data)

baseurl = data['base_url'] + "?action=preview&uid="

f = open('lastgametweeted.txt', 'r')
lastgame = f.readline()
thisgame = data['games'][0]['title']
i = 0

while(lastgame != thisgame):
    i = i+1
    thisgame = (data['games'][i]['title'])

i = i+1

thegame = data['games'][i]

charsremain = 140

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("SECRET", "SECRET")
auth.set_access_token("SECRET", "SECRET")
api = tweepy.API(auth)

gametitle = thegame['title']
gameurl = (tinyurl.create_one((baseurl+thegame['uid'])))

charsremain = charsremain - len(gameurl)

if(len(gametitle) + len(gameurl) + 8 > 140):
    tweet = gametitle[:charsremain-3]
    api.update_status(tweet+" - "+gameurl+" #ld48")
else:
    charsremain = charsremain - len(gametitle) - 3
    gamedesc = thegame['description'][:(charsremain-10)]
    print(gametitle+' - '+gamedesc+'... '+gameurl+' #ld48')
    api.update_status(gametitle+' - '+gamedesc+'... '+gameurl+' #ld48');

f.close()
f = open('lastgametweeted.txt', 'w')
f.write(gametitle)
f.close()

gameshoturl = "http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/compo2/thumb/"+thegame['shots'][0]['thumb']
print(gameshoturl)

image = urllib.URLopener()
image.retrieve(gameshoturl,"profilepic.png")

api.update_profile_image("./profilepic.png")