Harrison Conlin

UPDATE November 6: It’s pretty stable now and the code is at the end of this post

I’m going to keep this short. I’m currently in the process of writing a Google Wave robot for MyLifeIsAverage it’s currently very hacky and still writing/fixing it up in a usable state. The email for it is mliawavebot@appspot.com.

Known Bugs:

• Should use memcache for the word of the day

If your looking for a FML bot check out Cory Thompson’s FmylifeBOT
The Code

import logging
from waveapi import events
from waveapi import model
from waveapi import robot
import random
import re
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

def OnRobotAdded(properties, context):
  """Invoked when the robot has been added."""
  root_wavelet = context.GetRootWavelet()
  root_wavelet.CreateBlip().GetDocument().SetText("Hi and welcome to MLIA Bot \n\n Usage: type MLIA in a new blip or AWOD for the average word of the day")
def OnBlipSumbitted(properties,context):
    blip = context.GetBlipById(properties['blipId'])
    contents = blip.GetDocument().GetText()
    if contents[:4].upper() == "MLIA":
        r1 = random.randint(1,100) # Page number #FIXME: Should be proper # The first 100 are good
        r2 = random.randint(0,12) # Item number
        url = "http://mylifeisaverage.com/index.php?page=%i" % r1
        html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() # I'm really sorry MLIA crew but you guys having an API would be totally cooler 
        soupage = BeautifulSoup(html)
        a = soupage.findAll('div', id=re.compile('xnews*'))
        ab = a[r2].div.string
        blip.GetDocument().SetText(str(ab))
    elif contents[:4].upper() == "AWOD":
        #TODO: find if in memcache cache.

        url = "http://mylifeisaverage.com"
        html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
        soupage = BeautifulSoup(html)
        a = soupage.find('div',id='storyofday').h1.string.strip()
        blip.GetDocument().SetText(str(a))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  myRobot = robot.Robot('mliawavebot',
      image_url='http://mliawavebot.appspot.com/static/icon.png',
      version='2',
      profile_url='http://harrisony.com/blog/2009/10/mlia-google-wave/')
  myRobot.RegisterHandler(events.WAVELET_SELF_ADDED, OnRobotAdded)
  myRobot.RegisterHandler(events.BLIP_SUBMITTED, OnBlipSumbitted)
  myRobot.Run(debug=True)