Blog Rss FeedYou can download the complete script and a sample fortunes file from this link.
http://velvnet.com/c
In order for this script to work you need to install 2 python packages.
- The first package, called python-twitter (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/) exposes a web services API (http://twitter.com/help/api).
- The second package is the fortune package, It is available on pypi, and can be simply installed using easy_install fortune
$ sudo easy_install fortune
Installation
I have installed this script on my home server into ~/bin in my home directory. I also created a ~/.twfortunerc file, containing my twitter information and the path to my fortunes file.$ cat ~/.twfortunerc [fortune] username = accountname password = accountpassword fortunes_path = ~/Documents/fortunes
Running
You can automatically post your fortune cookie every day at midnight using cron.$ crontab -e @daily ~/bin/twfortune
You can edit the fortunes data file and add your own epigrams. Once you are done editing the fortune file you need to create the index file by running the command /usr/local/bin/fortune -u fortunes
The script
This script as well as a fortunes file can be downloaded from http://velvnet.com/c#!/usr/bin/env python # twfortune.py -- chooses a random fortune, as the fortune(8) program # in the BSD-games package does and post it on tweeter # http://twitter.com/ import twitter import fortune import ConfigParser import os.path import sys USAGE = '''Usage twfortune twfortune.py -- chooses a random fortune, as the fortune(8) program in the BSD-games package does and posts it on twitter -> http://twitter.com/ You need to create a .twfortunerc file in your home directory containing your twitter information as well as the path to a fortune cookie file. A skeletal .twfortunerc file: [fortune] username = your twitter username password = your twitter password fortune_path = /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes ''' class FortuneRc(object): def __init__(self): self._config = None def GetFortuneFile(self): filename = self._GetOption('fortunes_path') if filename.startswith('~'): filename = os.path.expanduser(filename) return filename def GetUsername(self): return self._GetOption('username') def GetPassword(self): return self._GetOption('password') def _GetOption(self, option): try: return self._GetConfig().get('fortune', option) except: return None def _GetConfig(self): if not self._config: self._config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() self._config.read(os.path.expanduser('~/.twfortunerc')) return self._config def Usage(): print >>sys.stderr, USAGE sys.exit(2) def main(): rcfile = FortuneRc() username = rcfile.GetUsername() password = rcfile.GetPassword() fortunefile = rcfile.GetFortuneFile() if not username or not password or not fortunefile: Usage() if not os.path.exists(fortunefile): print >>sys.stderr, "File %s not found" % fortunefile Usage() cookie = fortune.get_random_fortune(fortunefile) while len(cookie) > 134: cookie = fortune.get_random_fortune(fortunefile) try: twapi = twitter.Api(username=username, password=password) twapi.PostUpdate("MOTD: " + cookie) except HTTPError, err: print >>sys.stderr, str(err) sys.exit(1) if __name__ == "__main__": main()
You can see this script running on http://twitter.com/faxol512. Look at the messages starting with the tag MOTD:
Comments
Posted by: Guillaume Dec 04, 2008 @ 00:08
Can you make it into a Web service you can subscribe to? the user wouldn't follow the Twitter account, but would get to see any fortune cookie replied to the registered user, so that you don't have to follow the account and get all the fortune cookies of all the users.
Posted by: fred Dec 04, 2008 @ 08:18
Yes I can make a web service who automatically send fortune cookies. But I don't understand the reply thing you want.
Posted by: Silversleeves Apr 30, 2009 @ 15:24
I suggest avoiding pico as an editor when creating your own fortune cookie files.
My first and only such strfile'd with a blank line as one random entry.
After half an hour of Google-ing and applying a little horse-sense, I discovered (from counting the lines in a Windows GUI text editor) that the blank line was at the very end, right after the last perc ("%") delimiter. Pico, as has been my experience, loves adding those blanks. (Anticipating comments on the order of "Why not use [insert favorite shell editor here]": I can say that after the third time of not being able to quit out of vim or emacs in OS X's Terminal app, pico seemed like a breath of fresh air; for all it's attendant quirks and foibles, I still prefer it to the others.)
BZT
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