Simple script for posting to social pages

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#!/usr/local/bin/python3
import argparse
import re
import subprocess


def is_valid_link(link):
    match = re.compile(r"^https?://.+")
    link_match = match.findall(link)
    if link_match:
        return link_match
    else:
        msg = "{} is not a valid link".format(link)
        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(msg)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Post to social networks")
parser.add_argument('message', type=str, nargs=1)
parser.add_argument('-l', '--link', type=is_valid_link)

args = parser.parse_args()

f_cli = ['/usr/local/bin/fbcmd']
t_cli = ['/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin/t', 'update']

message = args.message[0]

if args.link:
    link = args.link[0]
    f_cli = f_cli + ['FEEDLINK', link, message]
    output = "{1} {0}".format(link, message)
    t_cli = t_cli + [output]
else:
    f_cli = f_cli + ["STATUS", message]
    t_cli = t_cli + [message]

print(' '.join(f_cli))
print(' '.join(t_cli))
subprocess.call(f_cli)
subprocess.call(t_cli)