monitor wikipedia recentchanges feed with twisted

recentchanges_monitor.py

# some code from Twisted Matrix's irc_test.py
from twisted.words.protocols import irc
from twisted.internet import reactor, protocol
import time, sys, re, datetime

CHANNEL = 'en.wikipedia' # use language.project


def process_message(message):
    color_re = re.compile("\x03(?:\d{1,2}(?:,\d{1,2})?)?", re.UNICODE) # remove IRC color codes
    return color_re.sub('', message)


class Monitor(irc.IRCClient): 
    def connectionMade(self):
        irc.IRCClient.connectionMade(self)

    def signedOn(self):
        self.join(self.factory.channel)

    def privmsg(self, user, channel, msg):
        print process_message(msg)


class MonitorFactory(protocol.ClientFactory):
    def __init__(self, channel):
        self.channel = channel

    def buildProtocol(self, addr):
        p = Monitor()
        p.factory = self
        return p

if __name__ == '__main__':
    f = MonitorFactory(CHANNEL)
    reactor.connectTCP("irc.wikimedia.org", 6667, f)
    reactor.run()