twitter

#!/usr/bin/python

from os import path
from time import time
import sys 
import httplib
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json 

def main():
    fname = '/tmp/@bandilab.json'

    if not path.exists(fname) or time() - path.getmtime(fname) > 60 * 60:
        conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.twitter.com")
        conn.request('GET',
            '/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=bandilab&count=5')
        resp = conn.getresponse()
        if resp.status == 200:
            out = open(fname, 'wb')
            out.write(resp.read())
            out.flush()

    infile = open(fname, 'rb')
    results = json.load(infile)
    style = 'padding: 0 0 5px 0;text-align:right;width:95px;vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;'
    print '<div style="text-align:right">Latest News (<a href="http://twitter.com/bandilab">subscribe</a>)</div>'
    print '<hr style="color: #009445;"/>'
    print '<table style="margin-bottom:1em;">'
    for status in results:
        d = status['created_at'].split()
        x = d[3].split(':')
        t = '<tr>'
        t += '<td style="' + style + '">'
        t +=     d[1] + ' ' + d[2] + ' ' + x[0] +':' + x[1]
        t += '</td>'
        t += '<td style="padding: 0 0 5px 5px;vertical-align:top;">' + status['text'] + '</td>'
        t += '</tr>'
        print t

    print '</table>'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()