Quick ‘n Dirty!¶
Introduction¶
Warning
This is not complete, this is used as a fast intro for those fairly familiar or a reference for those who are a little rusty with PyPump
This guide is designed to get you up to speed and using this library in a very short amount of time, to do that I avoid long winded explanations, if you’re completely new to PyPump and/or pump.io please use Tutorial.
Getting connected¶
So we need to get started:
>>> from pypump import PyPump, Client
As Part of our application we will need to ask the user to input a verification code from the website to give us access as part of the OAuth mechanism, the function needs to take a URL and have the user allow our application this function can either return the verification code or you can call pump.verify(code), a simple code:
>>> def simple_verifier(url):
... print 'Please follow the instructions at the following URL:'
... print url
... return raw_input("Verifier: ") # the verifier is a string
Note
If you wish to call pump.verify(<verification code>) return None from your verifier function
First we must tell the server about ourselves:
>>> client = Client(
webfinger="me@my.server.tld",
name="Quick 'n dirty",
type="native" # can be "native" or "web"
)
Now make PyPump (the class for talking to pump):
>>> pump = PyPump(client=client, verifier_callback=simple_verifier)
Super, next, I wanna see my inbox:
>>> my_inbox = pump.me.inbox
>>> for activity in my_inbox[:20]:
... print(activity)
Note
iterating over the inbox without any slice will iterate until the very first note in your inbox/feed/outbox
Oh, my friend Evan isn’t there, I probably need to follow him:
>>> evan = pump.Person("evan@e14n.org")
>>> evan.follow()
Awesome. Lets check again:
>>> for activity in my_inbox[:20]:
... print(activity)
Evan likes PyPump, super!:
>>> activity = my_inbox[1] # second activity in my inbox
>>> awesome_note = activity.obj
>>> awesome_note.content
'Oh wow, PyPump is awesome!'
>>> awesome_note.like()
I wonder if someone else has liked that:
>>> awesome_note.likes
[me@my.server.org, joar@some.other.server]
Cool! Lets tell them about these docs:
>>> my_comment = pump.Comment("Guys, if you like PyPump check out the docs!")
>>> awesome_note.comment(my_comment)
I wonder what was posted last:
>>> latest_activity = my_inbox[0]
>>> print(latest_activity)
<Activity: jrobb posted an image>
Oh it’s an image, lets see the thumbnail:
>>> url = latest_activity.obj.thumbnail.url
>>> fout = open("some_image.{0}".format(url.split(".")[-1], "wb")
>>> import urllib2 # this will be different with python3
>>> fout.write(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
>>> fout.close()
Hmm, I want to see a bigger version:
>>> large_url = latest_activity.obj.original.url
>>> print(large_url)
<Image at https://some.server/uploads/somefriend/2013/7/7/JkdX2.png">
>>> # you will find Images often hold other pump.Image objects, we just need to extra the url
>>> large_url = large_url.url
>>> fout = open("some_image_larger.{0}".format(large_url.split(".")[-1], "wb")
>>> fout.write(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
>>> fout.close()
That looks awesome, lets post a comment:
>>> my_comment = pump.Comment("Great, super imaeg")
>>> latest_activity.obj.comment(my_comment)
Oh no, I made a typo:
>>> my_comment.delete()
>>> my_comment.content = "Great, super image")
>>> latest_activity.obj.comment(my_comment)
Much better! Lets make a note to tell people how easy this all is:
>>> my_note = pump.Note("My gawd... PyPump is super easy to get started with")
>>> my_note.send()
But hold on though, that only sent it to followers? What gives:
>>> awesome_pump = pump.Note("PyPump is really awesome!")
>>> awesome_pump.to = pump.Public
>>> awesome_pump.cc = (pump.me.followers, pump.Person("MyFriend@server.com"))
>>> awesome_pump.send()
Oh cool that’s sent to all my friends, So can i make my own lists:
>>> for my_list in pump.me.lists:
... print(my_list)
Coworkers
Family
Friends
Oh are all those my lists that are defined. How do I send a note to them?:
>>> new_note = pump.Note("Work sucks!")
>>> new_note.to = pump.me.lists["Coworkers"]
>>> new_note.cc = pump.me.lists["Friends"]
So, can i send something to all of of the groups I made? Yep:
>>> another_note = pump.Note("This really goes to everyone in my groups?")
>>> another_note.to = list(pump.me.lists)
>>> another_note.cc = (pump.Person("moggers87@microca.st"), pump.Person("cwebber@identi.ca"))
>>> another_note.send()
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