mkfeed.py

import re, datetime
import twitter, PyRSS2Gen

def getURLs(text):
   url=unicode(r"((http|ftp)://)?(((([\d]+\.)+){3}[\d]+(/[\w./]+)?)|([a-z]\w*((\.\w+)+){2,})([/][\w.~]*)*)")
   return [a.group() for a in re.finditer(url,text)]


def mkFeedItem(url):
   return PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem(
            title = "Twitter Link",
            link = url,
            description = "Some shit from Twitter",
            guid = PyRSS2Gen.Guid(url),
            pubDate = datetime.datetime(2003, 9, 6, 21, 31)) # get
the right date/time from python-twitter

def mkFeed(urls):
   rss = PyRSS2Gen.RSS2(
       title = "Twitter Links",
       link = "www.twitter.com",
       description = "Your friends' stupid links",
       items = [mkFeedItem(u) for u in urls],
       lastBuildDate = datetime.datetime.now()   )

   rss.write_xml(open("twitterlinkfeed.xml", "w"))



api = twitter.Api(username="tsaylor", password="imsecretlyinlovewithkevin")

statuses = api.GetFriendsTimeline("tsaylor")
alltext = [s.text for s in statuses]

# get one list of URLs, even if there are multiple URLs in some posts
allurls = []
for t in alltext:
   for url in getURLs(t):
       allurls.append (url)

mkFeed(allurls)