quick & dirty way to call the Klout web service from Python

Klout.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import httplib2, json

__links__ = (r'http://developer.klout.com/iodocs')

KLOUT_API_KEY = '' # required!

'''
'''

class Klout():
	commands = {
			'score' : r'klout',
			'showUser' : r'users/show',
			'getTopics' : r'users/topics',
			'getInfluenced' : r'soi/influenced_by',
			'getInfluencer' : r'soi/influencer_of'
			}

	def __init__(self, authenticated=True, format='JSON'):
		if(authenticated == True):
			self.api_key = KLOUT_API_KEY
			self.authenticated = True
		else:
			self.authenticated = False
		if(format == 'XML'):
			self.format = '.xml'
		else:
			self.format = '.json'
		self.http = http = httplib2.Http()
		
	def buildURL(self, command, *users):
		baseURL = r'http://'
		baseURL += r'api.klout.com/1/' + Klout.commands[command] + self.format
		baseURL += r'?users=' 
		for user in users:
			baseURL += user + ','
		if(self.authenticated):
			baseURL += r'&key=' + self.api_key
		return baseURL

	def callURL(self, url):
		response, content = self.http.request(url)
		return json.loads(content)

	@staticmethod
	def test(*usernames):
		k = Klout()
		for command in Klout.commands:
			url = k.buildURL(command, *usernames)
			resp = k.callURL(url)
			for user in resp['users']:
				print command + '\t' + str(url)
				print json.dumps(user, indent=1)
			print '\n',

	@staticmethod
	def main():
		Klout.test('billgates', 'BARACKOBAMA')

if __name__ == '__main__':
	Klout.main()