testing to print multifeeder posts

.gitignore

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ venv*
 *__pycache__*
 *.pyc
 print/printed.json
+screen/tools/ascii-art-but-with-unicode/asciiWriter/__pycache__/*

print/start.py

@@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ scheduler.start()
 def update_db(item):
 	items = json.loads(open(db).read())
 	if not item in items['printed']:
+		new_item = True
 		with open(db, 'w') as out:
 			items['printed'].append(item)
 			out.write(json.dumps(items, indent=4))
 			out.close()
+	else:
+		new_item = False
+	return new_item
 
 def html2plain(html):
 	plain = re.sub('<[^<]+?>', '', text)
@@ -48,8 +52,6 @@ def html2plain(html):
 
 @scheduler.task('interval', id='check', minutes=10)
 def check():
-	print('Checking the Multifeeder!')
-
 	url = 'https://multi.vvvvvvaria.org/API/latest/10'
 	response = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
 	feed = json.loads(response)
@@ -66,7 +68,13 @@ def check():
 			'date' : post_date,
 			'printed' : plaintext
 		}
-		update_db(item)
+		new_item = update_db(item)
+		if new_item == True:
+			# print RSS post
+			buffer.text(plaintext)
+			buffer.cut()
+			lp._raw(buffer.output)
+
 
 @APP.route('/print/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
 def print():
@@ -83,7 +91,6 @@ def print():
 
 		date = datetime.now()
 		date_str = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')
-
 		item = {
 			'source' : 'TeleVex',
 			'date' : date_str,
@@ -95,9 +102,7 @@ def print():
 
 @APP.route('/printed/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
 def printed():
-
 	items = json.loads(open(db).read())
-
 	return flask.render_template('printed.html', items=items)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':