#/usr/bin/python2.5 # andy@engagemedia.org #generate a FreeJ javascript file, using a RSS2 feed # from elementtree import ElementTree as et from xml.etree import ElementTree as et from Cheetah.Template import Template import urllib import os import shutil RSS_FILE="http://www.engagemedia.org/featured-videos/RSS2" JAVASCRIPT_TEMPLATE="plumi_template.js" JAVASCRIPT_FILE="plumi.js" #download latest RSS2 print "fetching %s " % RSS_FILE feed = urllib.urlopen(RSS_FILE) print "parsing %s " % RSS_FILE parsed_feed = et.parse(feed) #setup the parameters from channel print "making js file %s " % JAVASCRIPT_FILE data_map = {} #download image, and remember path image_url = parsed_feed.find('channel').find('image').find('url').text #get the image print "fetching image logo %s " % image_url downloaded_image=urllib.urlretrieve(image_url) #save it somewhere sensible. image_name=os.path.basename(image_url) shutil.copyfile(downloaded_image[0],image_name) #the abs file path image_file_path=os.path.abspath(image_name) data_map['image_file_path'] = image_file_path data_map['channel_title'] = parsed_feed.find('channel').find('title').text data_map['videos'] = [] for video_elem in parsed_feed.getiterator('enclosure'): video_to_play = video_elem.get('url') js_var_name = "video_%s" % (len(data_map['videos'])) video_dict = {'url':video_to_play, 'js_var_name':js_var_name} data_map['videos'].append(video_dict) #write the new javascript file. t = Template(file=JAVASCRIPT_TEMPLATE, searchList=[data_map]) f=open(JAVASCRIPT_FILE, 'w') f.write(t.respond()) f.close()