michael schurter

I lurk in an IRC chatroom with some friends and throughout the course of a day a lot of links are posted.

I wanted to be able to catch up on the links without having to read through the entire channel backlog, so I hacked together a new module for Phenny (a Python IRC bot) which posted the links to a Delicious account. I subscribe to that account via Google Reader, and read through the latest Internet memes at my leisure.

To use my little hack:

1. Install pydelicious
2. Install Phenny
3. copy the following code into a new file: modules/delicious.py

   #!/usr/bin/env python
   """
   delicious.py - Automatically post URLs to delicious
   Author: Michael Schurter, http://michael.susens-schurter.com/
   License: Public Domain
   About: http://inamidst.com/phenny/
   """
    
   import re
   import pydelicious
    
   r = re.compile(r'http\S*')
    
   def f_delicious(self, origin, match, args):
     try:
       matches = r.findall(match.group())
       if matches:
         d = pydelicious.DeliciousAPI('DELICIOUS_USERNAME', 'DELICIOUS_PASSWORD')
         for url in matches:
           title = '%s: %s' % (origin.nick, match.group())
           if len(title) > 50:
             title = '%s...' % title[:50]
           d.posts_add(
             url=url,
             description=title,
             extended=match.group(),
             # Add custom tags below
             tags='oggbot oggbot-added-by:%s' % origin.nick
           )
     except:
       self.msg(origin.sender, 'Oops!  Missed that one.  Blame schmichael!')
   f_delicious.rule = r'.*'

4. Fill in delicious account information in the obvious place.
5. Start/Restart Phenny and watch posted links appear in delicious.

There’s lots of room for improvement in the code, but it works for me!

Sorry for poor tab spacing. I had vim configured for some Drupal hacking and forgot to switch back to 4-space tabs.

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