#!/usr/bin/env python """ur1.py -- command-line ur1.ca client. ur1.ca is the URL shortening services provided by status.net. This script makes it possible to access the service from the command line. This is done by scraping the returned page and look for the shortened URL. USAGE: ur1.py LONGURL RETURN STATUS: If the URL is succesfully shortened by ur1.ca, it is written to the standard output, and the program exits with status 0. If ur1.ca fails to shorten the long URL, the error message provided by ur1.ca is written to the standard error, and the program exits with status 1. If the input URL is malformed, no attempts of contacting the server is made, and the program exits with status 2. """ import sys import urllib import urlparse import re UR1CA = "http://ur1.ca/" ESUCCESS = 0 EFAIL = 1 EBADARG = 2 RE_GOOD = re.compile(r'

Your ur1 is: (?P=shorturl)

') RE_BAD = re.compile(r'

(?P.+)

') def isgoodarg(url): """Check if the input URL makes "sense". A URL does not make sense if the scheme is neither http or https, or the host part is missing. url: input URL Returns boolean indicating whether the URL makes sense. """ parse_result = urlparse.urlparse(url) #pylint: disable-msg=E1101 isgoodscheme = (parse_result.scheme == "http" or parse_result.scheme == "https") isgoodhost = parse_result.hostname return isgoodscheme and isgoodhost def parameterize(url): """Encode input URL as POST parameter. url: a string which is the URL to be passed to ur1.ca service. Returns the POST parameter constructed from the URL. """ return urllib.urlencode({"longurl": url}) def request(parameter): """Send POST request to ur1.ca using the parameter. parameter: the parameter to the POST request, as returned by parameterize(). Returns the file-like object as returned by urllib.urlopen. """ return urllib.urlopen(UR1CA, parameter) def retrievedoc(response): """Retrieve the HTML text from the ur1.ca response. response: the file-like HTTP response file returned by ur1.ca. Returns the text as a string. """ #XXX: ensure all bytes are read res_info = response.info() clength = int(res_info["content-length"]) return response.read(clength) def scrape(document): """Scrape the HTML document returned from ur1.ca for the answer. document: HTML document returned from ur1.ca Returns a 2-tuple (success, answer) where -- success: boolean value indicating whether the service returned some meaningful result answer: if success, this is the shortened URL, otherwise a string indicating the possible problem """ goodguess = RE_GOOD.search(document) if goodguess: matchdict = goodguess.groupdict() return (True, matchdict["shorturl"]) badguess = RE_BAD.search(document) if badguess: matchdict = badguess.groupdict() return (False, matchdict["errormsg"]) else: return (False, "Unknown local error.") def __do_main(): """Do everything.""" try: arg = sys.argv[1] except IndexError: sys.exit(EBADARG) if not isgoodarg(arg): sys.exit(EBADARG) post_param = parameterize(arg) answerfile = request(post_param) doc = retrievedoc(answerfile) answerfile.close() status, msg = scrape(doc) if status: print msg sys.exit(ESUCCESS) else: print >> sys.stderr, msg sys.exit(EFAIL) if __name__ == "__main__": __do_main()