annotate oembed/core.py @ 1141:5a95815f147c

Convert submit news pages to V3 design.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:44:15 -0500
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bgneal@285 1 """
bgneal@285 2 This module contains core functionality for the oembed application.
bgneal@679 3
bgneal@285 4 """
bgneal@908 5 from contextlib import closing
bgneal@679 6 import json
bgneal@285 7 import urllib
bgneal@285 8 import urllib2
bgneal@285 9 import gzip
bgneal@285 10 try:
bgneal@285 11 from cStringIO import StringIO
bgneal@285 12 except ImportError:
bgneal@285 13 from StringIO import StringIO
bgneal@285 14
bgneal@285 15
bgneal@285 16
bgneal@285 17 USER_AGENT = 'gremmies python oembed'
bgneal@285 18
bgneal@285 19
bgneal@908 20 def get_oembed(api_endpoint, url, fmt='json', **opts):
bgneal@285 21 """
bgneal@285 22 Perform the GET request to retrieve the embedded media data from the given
bgneal@285 23 API endpoint for the given URL. Return the result as a Python dictionary.
bgneal@285 24
bgneal@908 25 fmt specifies the response format, and should be 'json' or 'xml'.
bgneal@285 26 opts are any additional GET options that should be present in the GET
bgneal@285 27 request.
bgneal@285 28
bgneal@285 29 """
bgneal@285 30 opts['url'] = url
bgneal@908 31 opts['format'] = fmt
bgneal@285 32 api_url = "%s?%s" % (api_endpoint, urllib.urlencode(opts))
bgneal@285 33
bgneal@285 34 headers = {
bgneal@361 35 'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
bgneal@285 36 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip',
bgneal@285 37 }
bgneal@285 38 request = urllib2.Request(api_url, headers=headers)
bgneal@908 39 with closing(urllib2.urlopen(request)) as response:
bgneal@908 40 headers = response.info()
bgneal@908 41 result = response.read()
bgneal@285 42
bgneal@285 43 if headers.get('content-encoding') == 'gzip':
bgneal@908 44 with closing(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(result))) as f:
bgneal@908 45 result = f.read()
bgneal@285 46
bgneal@285 47 return json.loads(result)
bgneal@285 48
bgneal@285 49 if __name__ == "__main__":
bgneal@285 50 try:
bgneal@285 51 print get_oembed("http://www.youtube.com/oembed",
bgneal@907 52 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IMzJldOf4",
bgneal@907 53 scheme='https')
bgneal@285 54 except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
bgneal@285 55 print e