view oembed/core.py @ 631:f36d1a168be7

For issue 27, disable login dialog button during POST. This seems to prevent multiple logins most of the time. You can still bang on the enter key and sometimes get more through.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:57:05 -0600
parents ee87ea74d46b
children 89b240fe9297
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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