A time waster/distraction

[Aviss,Tyler]

Wow, I was actually commenting that it shouldn't be hard for me to  
figure out, not that I was expecting somebody else to do the work.

Thankee, perhaps regular amusing backgrounds may help push my GF to  
use her Linux desktop more often

(sent from my phone, so please excuse the typos)

On 23-Jun-09, at 3:05 PM, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>  
wrote:

> Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> Hmm. Translating an RSS feed to a picture-puller shouldn't be too
>> hard. Easier (and more polite) than a screen-scraper too. Thanks :-)
>
> Here:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import urllib2
> import xml.dom.minidom as DOM
>
> i = []
> can = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/ICanHasCheezburger'
> has = urllib2.urlopen(can).readlines()
> cheez = DOM.parseString(''.join(has))
>
> ichcb_url = 'http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com'
>
> for burger in cheez.getElementsByTagName('media:content'):
>        burger = burger.attributes.get('url').value
>        if burger.startswith(ichcb_url):
>                i.append(burger)
>
> for ICanHasCheezburger in i:
>        print ICanHasCheezburger
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