INSTANT Pinboard search from Alfred 2

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INSTANT Pinboard search from Alfred 2

I've had a Python script that makes an HTML Bookmarks file for LaunchBar.
Now that I use Alfred 2, I modified it to make XML for Alfred.
This allows me to search my bookmarks with GREP SPEED!

Installation

First, add your token (from pinboard.in/settings/password) to ~/.netrc

machine pinboard.in
  password username:T0K3N11111111111

Then:

1. Get pinboard-xml (I've also attached it to the gist in case I change something in my dotfiles repo)
2. Put in the folder where you keep your scripts (eg. ~/bin)
3. chmod +x it
4. Add to crontab (eg. */30 * * * * ~/bin/pinboard-xml)
5. Make a workflow in Alfred 2 with the following Script Filter (using /bin/bash) to Open URL:

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
echo "<items>"
cat $HOME/.bookmarks.xml | grep "{query}"
echo "</items>"

Enjoy!

pinboard_xml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Made by Val Packett, ages ago in a past life
# https://gist.github.com/valpackett/5189568   <- also on gist
# Feel free to steal it, but attribution is nice
import os
import sys
import json
import netrc
import errno
import urllib2

def die(msg, err):
    sys.stderr.write(msg)
    sys.exit(err)

login = netrc.netrc().authenticators('pinboard.in')
if not login:
    die('pinboard.in not found in netrc; add token as password', errno.ENODATA)

try:
    getreq = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?format=json&auth_token='+login[2])

    if getreq.code == 429:
        die('too often', errno.EPERM)
    if getreq.code != 200:
        die('http error %s on getting, maybe wrong password?' %
                getreq.code, errno.EACCES)

    items = json.loads(getreq.read())

    res = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items>'''

    for item in items:
        href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&amp;')
        desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&amp;')
        res += '<item uid="%s" arg="%s"><title>%s</title><subtitle>%s</subtitle></item>\n' % \
        (href, href, desc, href)
    res += '</items>'

    open(os.environ['HOME']+'/.bookmarks.xml', 'w').write(res)
except urllib2.HTTPError:
    die('connection error', errno.ECONNREFUSED)

To solve the "&" issue, try changing:

href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')
desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')

to

href = item['href'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', '&)
desc = item['description'].encode('utf-8').replace('\n', '').replace('&', 'and')

In case there are "&" present in your pinboard bookmark description or url.

Lookup https://github.com/jmjeong/alfred-extension/tree/master/pinboard

Updated to use urllib2 (no deps!) and API token auth instead of password auth.

Thank you