But I`m still waiting for swag

The script is run by cron currently every minute.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import twitter
import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
import simplejson

api = twitter.Api(username='username', password='passwd')

def shorten(param):
	""" Using bit.ly to shorten the url """
	url = param
	request = "http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl="
	request += url
	request += "&login=username&apiKey=APIKEY"

	# fire off request for bit.ly
	sock = urllib.urlopen(request)
	json = sock.read()
	sock.close()

	# get the json
	json = simplejson.loads(json)
	return json['results'][url]['shortUrl']

# get the rss feed
sock = urllib.urlopen("http://www.hotukdeals.com/rss/hot")
rss = sock.read()
sock.close()  

# parse the rss into ready xml
xmldoc = minidom.parseString(rss)

# eextract our results
items = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('item')
result = items[0].getElementsByTagName('title')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
result += " " +shorten(items[0].getElementsByTagName('link')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue)

# open the temp file and read in old value
f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'w+')
existing = f.read()
existing = existing.replace('\n', '')

unicode_result = unicode(result)

# if the new value from the top of the rss feed is different tweet and record it
if unicode_result.encode('utf-8') != existing:
	unicode_string = unicode(result)
	f.write(unicode_string.encode('utf-8'))
	if len(result) > 0:
		api.PostUpdate(result)

f.close()

If you just want the functionality use the BitLy class in your App Engine code. Currently is just returns simple for you to use. So for example with shorten to access the the hash you would use: json['results'][urlentered]['hash']. Replace the url entered with the url you supplied.

Any questions please email ch at chrishannam dot co dot uk

import cgi

from django.utils import simplejson

from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

class Index(webapp.RequestHandler):
	def get(self):

		EXPAND = "expand"
		SHORTEN = "shorten"
		INFO = "info"
		STATS = "stats"
		ERRORS = "errors"

		bitly = BitLy('your_login','your_apikey')

		self.response.out.write('')
		self.response.out.write(bitly.expand('31IqMl'))
		self.response.out.write(bitly.shorten('http://www.chrishannam.co.uk'))
		self.response.out.write(bitly.info('31IqMl'))
		self.response.out.write(bitly.stats('http://bit.ly/31IqMl'))
		self.response.out.write(bitly.errors())
		self.response.out.write('')

class BitLy():
	def __init__(self, login, apikey):
		self.login = login
		self.apikey = apikey

	def expand(self,param):
		request = "http://api.bit.ly/expand?version=2.0.1&shortUrl=http://bit.ly/"
		request += param
		request += "&login=" + self.login + "&apiKey=" +self.apikey

		result = urlfetch.fetch(request)
		json = simplejson.loads(result.content)
		return json

	def shorten(self,param):
		url = "http://" + param
		request = "http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl="
		request += url
		request += "&login=" + self.login + "&apiKey=" +self.apikey

		result = urlfetch.fetch(request)
		json = simplejson.loads(result.content)
		return json

	def info(self,param):
		request = "http://api.bit.ly/info?version=2.0.1&hash="
		request += param
		request += "&login=" + self.login + "&apiKey=" +self.apikey

		result = urlfetch.fetch(request)
		json = simplejson.loads(result.content)
		return json

	def stats(self,param):
		request = "http://api.bit.ly/stats?version=2.0.1&shortUrl="
		request += param
		request += "&login=" + self.login + "&apiKey=" +self.apikey

		result = urlfetch.fetch(request)
		json = simplejson.loads(result.content)
		return json

	def errors(self):
		request += "http://api.bit.ly/errors?version=2.0.1&login=" + self.login + "&apiKey=" +self.apikey

		result = urlfetch.fetch(request)
		json = simplejson.loads(result.content)
		return json

application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
                                     [('/', Index)],
                                     debug=True)

def main():
  run_wsgi_app(application)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()