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I recently wrote a small a python script to parse blog feeds and then
tweet them out via Twitter. It randomly takes the first 5 RSS entries of
a feed and them tweets one out. You'll need to get an API
key <https://developer.twitter.com/>__ from Twitter and the
credentials, but it's a neat way to keep your readers updated of the
various feeds you read or write. Just replace the
'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' with the various keys you get from Twitter.
import feedparser
import sys
import os
import random
from twython import Twython, TwythonError
CONSUMER_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
ACCESS_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
num = random.randint(0,5)
d = feedparser.parse('http://www.neuralmarkettrends.com/feed')
api = Twython(CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET,ACCESS_KEY,ACCESS_SECRET)
status_text = 'Fresh: ' + d['entries'][num]['title'] + ' link: '+ d['entries'][num]['link'] + ' #NMT'
try:
api.update_status(status=status_text)
except TwythonError as e:
print (e)