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| import urllib2, urllib, base64, json | |
| from datetime import datetime | |
| from time import mktime | |
| import feedparser | |
| def days_since_last_post(rss_url): | |
| d = feedparser.parse(rss_url) | |
| if not len(d.entries): | |
| return -1 | |
| # get date of last blog post and convert to datetime object | |
| last_published = datetime.fromtimestamp( | |
| mktime(d.entries[0].published_parsed)) | |
| now = datetime.utcnow() | |
| return (now.date() - last_published.date()).days | |
| def send_to_ducksboard(data, widget_url, api_key, is_delta=False): | |
| """Pushes data to your ducksboard widget. Data should be numeric, | |
| or a dict if widget is a text/leaderboard/timeline/etc... widget (see | |
| documentation). Use is_delta if you're dealing with incremental | |
| values (eg. you are specifying differences from the current value). | |
| """ | |
| if is_delta: | |
| msg = {'delta': data} | |
| else: | |
| msg = {'value': data} | |
| request = urllib2.Request(widget_url) | |
| # ducksboard uses http basic auth, so setup headers | |
| auth = base64.encodestring('%s:x' % api_key) | |
| auth = auth.replace('\n', '') | |
| request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth) | |
| return urllib2.urlopen(request, json.dumps({'value': data})).read() | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| api_key = 'xxxx' | |
| widget_url = 'https://push.ducksboard.com/v/72221' | |
| days = days_since_last_post('http://blog.interstellr.com/rss') | |
| send_to_ducksboard(days, widget_url, api_key) |
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