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Get A Jaiku Personal_key Given A Username And Password
Logs into Jaiku and then gets the personal_key for using the API.
def GetJaikuPersonalKey(user, password):
"""Finds the Jaiku API personal_key from a username and password.
One day I'll learn to use urllib2 properly and cookie parsing and stuff.
"""
# login and find a cookie
login_url = "http://jaiku.com/login"
request_body = urllib.urlencode({'log': user,
'pwd': password,
'rememberme': '1'})
# Open a connection to the authentication server.
auth_connection = httplib.HTTPConnection('jaiku.com')
# Begin the POST request to the client login service.
auth_connection.putrequest('POST', '/login')
# Set the required headers for an Account Authentication request.
auth_connection.putheader('Content-type',
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
auth_connection.putheader('Content-Length', str(len(request_body)))
auth_connection.endheaders()
auth_connection.send(request_body)
auth_response = auth_connection.getresponse()
if auth_response.status == 303:
cookie_str = auth_response.getheader("set-cookie")
# TODO(ark) parse this properly!
res = re.search("(jaikuuser_[^;]*).*(jaikupass_[^;]*)", cookie_str)
if res:
auth_cookie = "%s; %s" % (res.group(1), res.group(2))
apikey_url = "http://api.jaiku.com/key"
req = urllib2.Request(url=apikey_url)
req.add_header('Cookie', auth_cookie)
f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
return f.read()
