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UPDATE November 2011: This is currently not building. Oh well.

Generate a daily digest PDF in pocketmod booklet form to print out and enjoy.

See: http://www.pocketmod.com/

Usage:

python digest.py

This will run through and fetch all the data, and save a PDF file in output/digest.pdf. The file will be opened when the script completes

I'm slowly filling in the pages of the booklet. I'll add them here in the order they appear:

1. Last.fm event recommendations
2. Tube line and station status
3. Twitter updates
4. Newsgator RSS headlines
5. Google calendar + Weather
6. Flickr photo spread left
7. Flickr photo spread right

Required libs:

• PIL (compiled with jpeg support) http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ http://www.ijg.org/
• pylast 0.3 branch revision 163 (PATCHED see lib/pylast.diff) http://code.google.com/p/pylast/source/browse/branches/0.3/?r=163 GPL

Bundled libs:

• Some Django utils http://www.djangoproject.com/ BSD
• ReportLab http://www.reportlab.org/ BSD
• gdata-python-client http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ Apache
• BeautifulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ BSD
• simplejson http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/ MIT
• feedparser http://www.feedparser.org/ MIT
• flickrapi http://stuvel.eu/projects/flickrapi Python

You'll also need a settings.py file module which defines things like api keys, usernames and passwords. See settings.example.py

APIs:

• Google Static Maps http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
• Last.fm http://www.last.fm/api
• Twitter http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
• Newsgator http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/api/ http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/TermsOfService.aspx http://nmp.newsgator.com/NGBuzz/Images/PoweredbyNG.gif
• Google Calendar http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ This product uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr.

RSS:

• BBC Weather http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/about/newsid_7788000/7788189.stm
• Met Office warnings and advisories http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/rss/help.html

Screen Scraping:

• TFL http://www.tfl.gov.uk/