old Python script that fetched Google Reader unread feeds count

rssToConky_old.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import urllib2
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def main():
    username = 'EMAILADDRESS'
    password = 'PASSWORD'
    
    # Authenticate to obtain SID
    auth_url = 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin'
    auth_req_data = urllib.urlencode({'Email': username,
                                      'Passwd': password,
                                      'service': 'reader'})
    auth_req = urllib2.Request(auth_url, data=auth_req_data)
    auth_resp = urllib2.urlopen(auth_req)
    auth_resp_content = auth_resp.read()
    auth_resp_dict = dict(x.split('=') for x in auth_resp_content.split('\n') if x)
    auth_token = auth_resp_dict["Auth"]
    
    # Create a cookie in the header using the SID 
    header = {}
    header['Authorization'] = 'GoogleLogin auth=%s' % auth_token
    
    reader_base_url = 'http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?%s'
    reader_req_data = urllib.urlencode({'all': 'true', 'output': 'xml'})
    reader_url = reader_base_url % (reader_req_data)
    reader_req = urllib2.Request(reader_url, None, header)
    reader_resp = urllib2.urlopen(reader_req)
    reader_resp_content = reader_resp.read()
    
    root = ET.fromstring(reader_resp_content)
    objects = []
    if len(root.find('list').findall('object')) == 0:
        print 0
        return
    for child in root.find('list').findall('object'):
        objects.append(child)
    for object in objects:
        if object.find('string').text.find('/state/com.google/reading-list') != -1:
            for number in object.findall('number'):
                if number.get('name') == 'count':
                    print number.text

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()