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And finally, we need to actually display links from del.icio.us on the front page. Fetch them from del.icio.us hourly and write out a document snippet, and then include that snippet in the page.

import xmltramp,urllib2,cgi

def e(s):
  return cgi.escape(s).replace('"','"')

authinfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password('del.icio.us API', 'http://del.icio.us',
  'USERNAME','PASSWORD')
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authinfo)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
data = urllib2.urlopen('http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent').read()
dom = xmltramp.parse(data)

out = []
for p in dom['post':]:
  try:
    ext = p('extended')
  except:
    ext = ''
  out.append('<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>' % \
  (e(p('href')),e(ext),e(p('description'))))
fp = open('/var/www/kryogenix.org/scripts/index.curlies.cached','w')
fp.write('\n'.join(out))
fp.close()

@hourly python /var/www/kryogenix.org/scripts/get-delicious-recent.py

<?cas
CACHED_COPY = '../scripts/index.curlies.cached'
pfp = open(CACHED_COPY)
response.write(pfp.read())
pfp.close()
?>

and that’s it. Move complete. No more maintaining my own linklog. :)

(Updated: changed the crontab call and the script so that if there’s a failure it doesn’t just blank out index.curlies.cached!)