view gpp/oembed/core.py @ 467:b910cc1460c8

Add the ability to conditionally add model instances to the search index on update. This is not perfect, as some instances should be deleted from the index if they are updated such that they should not be in the index anymore. Will think about and address that later.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:12:20 +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