view gpp/oembed/core.py @ 505:a5d11471d031

Refactor the logic in the rate limiter decorator. Check to see if the request was ajax, as the ajax view always returns 200. Have to decode the JSON response to see if an error occurred or not.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:13:38 +0000
parents 6d6fdc58487c
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"""
This module contains core functionality for the oembed application.
"""
from __future__ import with_statement
import urllib
import urllib2
import gzip
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO

import django.utils.simplejson as json


USER_AGENT = 'gremmies python oembed'


def get_oembed(api_endpoint, url, format='json', **opts):
    """
    Perform the GET request to retrieve the embedded media data from the given
    API endpoint for the given URL. Return the result as a Python dictionary.

    format specifies the response format, and should be 'json' or 'xml'.
    opts are any additional GET options that should be present in the GET
    request.

    """
    opts['url'] = url
    opts['format'] = format
    api_url = "%s?%s" % (api_endpoint, urllib.urlencode(opts))

    headers = {
        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
        'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip',
    }
    request = urllib2.Request(api_url, headers=headers)

    opener = urllib2.build_opener()
    f = opener.open(request)
    headers = f.info()
    result = f.read()
    f.close()

    if headers.get('content-encoding') == 'gzip':
        f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(result))
        result = f.read()
        f.close()

    return json.loads(result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        print get_oembed("http://www.youtube.com/oembed",
                "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IMzJldOf4")
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        print e