C.C.C.P.
CCCP is a console chatterbox client written in Python, allowing you to chat with your fellow noders without opening a web browser. It is platform-independent and should run without any problem on Windows, Linux and OSX.
You will need to install the Python interpreter, which is available for free here: http://www.python.org/download/
Install it, copy/paste the following code into a text file and save it with a .PY extension (ex. catbox.py).
You can run the script by double-clicking on it or using the following command, in xterm, command.com or whatever:
C:> python catbox.py
Configuration
There is one optional parameter (PROXY) that you will have to change if you are behind a proxy - put its URL and port. It currently does not support HTTPS proxies or any kind of authentication. I may add that later.
Usage
Type your message, press enter to send it. Press enter on an empty line to refresh the chat.
To quit, press CTRL-C or type "/quit" like in IRC.
History
v1.0 - Initial buggy release.
v1.1 - Various bugfixes. Removed the plaintext password from the code.
v1.2 - Now supports sending HTML entities and decoding most of those too.
v1.3 - Password prompt now uses getpass().
v1.4 - Will exit if the wrong username/password is entered.
v1.5 - Current. Fixed the posting bug many of you experienced. /msg me if there's any issue.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Version 1.5
import urllib, urllib2, cookielib
import time, re, getpass
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint, codepoint2name
PROXY = ""
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
class Connection:
def proxySet(self):
if PROXY == "":
self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler,
urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
else:
self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(
urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" : PROXY}),
urllib2.HTTPHandler, urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
urllib2.install_opener(self.opener)
return self.opener
def login(self, usr, passwd):
self.opener = self.proxySet()
self.data = {'node_id':124, 'op':'login', 'user':usr, 'passwd':passwd,
'expires':'+10y', 'login':'Login', '.cgifields':'expires'}
self.r = self.opener.open("http://everything2.com/index.pl", urllib.urlencode(self.data))
return self.r
def post(self, msg):
self.proxySet()
self.url = 'http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1873513&mode=message&%s' % (urllib.urlencode({'msgtext':msg}),)
self.r = urllib2.urlopen(self.url)
def grabBox(self):
self.proxySet()
# Will switch to the Universal ticker but it seems this one gets more messages.
self.url = urllib2.urlopen("http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=chatterbox+xml+ticker")
self.xml = self.url.read()
self.xml = re.sub('(<a).+?(\' >)', '[', self.xml) # Removes hyperlinks
self.xml = re.sub('<\/a>', ']', self.xml) # Removes link end tag
self.lister = []
self.dom1 = parseString(self.xml)
for i in self.dom1.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("message"):
self.author = i.getAttribute("author").encode('latin-1')
self.time = i.getAttribute("time")
self.time = time.mktime(time.strptime(self.time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
self.message = i.firstChild.data[1:].encode('latin-1')
self.lister.append((self.author, self.message, self.time))
self.dom1.unlink()
return self.lister
class Chat:
def __init__(self): pass
def htmlentitydecode(self, s):
return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint),
lambda m: unichr(name2codepoint[m.group(1)]), s)
def show(self, chatter):
self.chatter = chatter
self.now = time.mktime(time.localtime()) - 420.0
for i in self.chatter:
if i[2] >= self.now: print "<%s> %s\n" % (i[0], self.htmlentitydecode(i[1]))
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
usr = raw_input("Username: ")
passwd = getpass.getpass()
welp = Connection()
login = welp.login(usr, passwd)
resp = login.info()
if resp['Set-Cookie'].find("userpass=") == -1:
print "Wrong username or password."
else:
ch = Chat()
while 1:
chat = welp.grabBox()
ch.show(chat)
hurr = raw_input("> ")
if hurr == "/quit": break
elif hurr != '': welp.post(hurr)
except KeyboardInterrupt: print "\nExiting..."
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