Irc logger on the command line

ircwatch.py

import requests
from time import sleep
from simplejson import loads, dumps
from datetime import datetime

BASE = 'http://irc.softver.org.mk/api/_changes'

DEFAULT_PARAMS = {'feed':'longpoll', 'heartbeat':'30000', 'include_docs':'true',
                  'filter':'log/channel', 'channel':'lugola'}

def main():
    
    params = dict(DEFAULT_PARAMS)
    last_seq = 275508  # starting log
    headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
    while True:
        params['since'] = last_seq
        r = requests.get(BASE, params=params, headers=headers)
        json_ = loads(r.text.strip())
        for item in json_['results']:
            doc = item['doc']
            sent = datetime.fromtimestamp(doc['timestamp'])
            print "%s [%s] %s" % (sent.strftime("%H:%M"), doc['sender'], doc['message'])
        last_seq = json_['last_seq']
    
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()