#!/usr/bin/env python from argparse import ArgumentParser import json, sys from urllib import urlencode from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError, URLError def main(args): p = ArgumentParser("calls the getText API function for the given padid") p.add_argument("padid", help="the padid") p.add_argument("--padinfo", default=".etherdump/settings.json", help="settings, default: .etherdump/settings.json") p.add_argument("--showurl", default=False, action="store_true") p.add_argument("--format", default="text", help="output format, can be: text, json; default: text") p.add_argument("--rev", type=int, default=None, help="revision, default: latest") args = p.parse_args(args) with open(args.padinfo) as f: info = json.load(f) apiurl = info.get("apiurl") # apiurl = "{0[protocol]}://{0[hostname]}:{0[port]}{0[apiurl]}{0[apiversion]}/".format(info) data = {} data['apikey'] = info['apikey'] data['padID'] = args.padid # is utf-8 encoded if args.rev != None: data['rev'] = args.rev requesturl = apiurl+'getText?'+urlencode(data) if args.showurl: print requesturl else: results = json.load(urlopen(requesturl)) if args.format == "json": print json.dumps(results) else: if results['data']: sys.stdout.write(results['data']['text'].encode("utf-8"))