Grab lyrics from the song generator at phantomlyrics.org to tweet

lilsb.py

"""
Script to grab lyrics from the song generator at phantomlyrics.org,
take 5 random verses from which you can choose, and make them ready
for Twitter.
"""
from httplib import HTTPConnection
from random import choice as random_choice
from sys import exit
from urllib import urlencode

headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
           "Accept": "text/html"}

params = urlencode({
    "g": "rbh", # Rap/R&B
    "e": random_choice([
        "ang", # angry
        "dep", # depressed
        "hap", # happy
    ]),
})

try:
    conn = HTTPConnection("phantomlyrics.org")
    conn.request("POST", "/lyrics.php", params, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
except:
    print "Could not connect to phantomlyrics.org"
    conn.close()
    print "Closed connection"
    exit()

try:
    assert response.status == 200
    data = response.read()
except AssertionError:
    print "non 200 response from phantomlyrics"
    exit()
except:
    print "response from phantomlyrics was 200 but something else went wrong"
    exit()
finally:
    conn.close()
    print "Closed connection"

try:
    # get the song title & all the lyric pairs
    song_title = ' -"' + data.split('<h1>')[1].split('</h1>')[0].strip() + '"'
    body = data.split('<p class="lyrics')[1].split('">')[1].split('</p>')[0]
    lines = body.replace("\n", "").split("<br />")
    lyrics = [" /".join(lines[i:i+2]) for i in range(0, len(lines), 2)]
    lyrics.sort(key=len)
    lyrics.reverse()
    for i in range(len(lyrics)):
        if len(lyrics[i].strip()) <= (140 - len(song_title)):
            safe = lyrics[i:]
            break
    # get five tweets to choose from
    tweets = []
    while len(tweets) < (len(safe) if len(safe) <= 5 else 5):
        tweet = random_choice(safe).strip()
        if tweet not in tweets:
            tweets.append(tweet)
except:
    print "error parsing the lyrics & getting a tweet"
    exit()

print "Song title: %s" % song_title[2:]
for i in range(len(tweets)):
    print "%s) %s" % (i+1, tweets[i])

tweet = None
while not tweet:
    choice = raw_input('Enter choice: ')
    try:
        tweet = tweets[int(choice)-1] + song_title
    except:
        print "Invalid entry" # invalid entry

print "Your tweet is: %s" % tweet