landspitali.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
import lxml.html
import time
import datetime
import tweepy
import random
import string

CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
ACCESS_SECRET = ''

chars = string.letters + string.digits
randomstring = ''.join([random.choice(chars) for i in xrange(4)])  # a random string for url appending to avoid cache


def landspitali_tweet():
    url = 'http://landspitali.is?x=' + randomstring
    html = requests.get(url).text
    root = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
    space = ' '
    strings = root.xpath('//div[@class="activityNumbers activityNumbersNew"]')
    messages = []
    for s in strings:
        record = {}
        for d in s[1:]:
            record['ward'] = d.attrib['class']
            record['time'] = d[0].text
            record['number'] = d[1].text
            record['tail'] = d[2].text
            record['date_time'] = time.strftime("%a %b %e %T %z %Y", time.gmtime())
            msg = record['time'].replace('...', ':') + space + record['number'] + space + record['tail']
            messages.append(msg)

    if not messages:
        print "Could not find any relevant information from %s" % url
        return False

    tweet = random.choice(messages)
    try:
        auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
        auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)
        api = tweepy.API(auth)
        api.update_status(tweet)
        return True
    except Exception, e:
        print 'Failed to send tweet: %s' % tweet, e
        return False

#landspitali_tweet()
#import cloud
#cloud.cron.register(landspitali_tweet, 'landspitali', '*/60 * * * *',_type = 's1')
#landspitali_tweet()