Status Board Foursquare Python Server

statusboard.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from json import loads
from os import environ
from time import time
from urllib2 import urlopen

HEADER = environ.get('HEADER')
FOURSQUARE_URL = "https://api.foursquare.com/v2/checkins/recent?oauth_token=%s" % (environ.get('FOURSQUARE_TOKEN'))
FOURSQUARE_IDS = set(environ.get('FOURSQUARE_IDS').split(','))

def getDelta(timestamp):
  """Gets the detla of time in string"""
  delta = int(time() - timestamp)
  deltaString = ''
  if delta > 31536000:
    deltaString = str(delta/31536000) + 'y'
  elif delta > 2592000:
    deltaString = str(delta/2592000) + 'm'
  elif delta > 86400:
    deltaString = str(delta/86400) + 'd'
  elif delta > 3600:
    deltaString = str(delta/3600) + 'h'
  elif delta > 60:
    deltaString = str(delta/60) + 'm'
  else:
    deltaString = 'now'

  return deltaString

def getInitial(name):
  """Gets the first letter as an initial and capitalizes it"""
  return name[0].upper()

def getRow(checkin):
  """Convers a checkin into a row"""
  user = checkin['user']
  name = "%s%s" % (getInitial(user['firstName']), getInitial(user['lastName']))
  venue = checkin['venue']['name']
  time = getDelta(checkin['createdAt'])
  display = "%s (%s)" %(venue, time)

  return ",".join([name, display])

def getCheckins():
  """Gets the checkins from foursquare"""
  data = loads(urlopen(FOURSQUARE_URL).read())
  return [getRow(checkin) for checkin in data['response']['recent'] if checkin['user']['id'] in FOURSQUARE_IDS]

class StatusBoardHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  """StatusBoardHandler handles requests from StatusBoard"""
  
  def do_GET(self):
    """Handles all GET requests to the server"""
    self.send_response(200)
    self.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/plain')
    self.end_headers()
    self.wfile.write("%s\n%s" % (HEADER, "\n".join(getCheckins())))
    return

if __name__ == '__main__':
  server = HTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', int(environ.get('PORT'))), StatusBoardHandler)
  server.serve_forever()