youtube.py

#Copyright (C) 2014, Simon Dooms

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from backbone import Backbone
from datetime import datetime
import re
import json
import glob
import os

def extractYouTubeIDFRomLink(url):
    #youtu.be/qFIUHACQ-gM?a
    pattern = 'youtu.be/(.*)\?a$' 
    p = re.compile(pattern,re.M | re.I)
    matches = p.findall(url)
    if len(matches) > 0:
        return matches[0]
    else:
        return -1

def extractDataFromTweet(tweet):
    user = ''
    item = ''
    timestamp = ''
    #user
    user = tweet['user']['id']
    #timestamp
    timestamp = tweet['created_at']
    the_time = datetime.strptime(timestamp.replace(' +0000',''), '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y')
    timestamp = (the_time-datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds()
    timestamp = int(timestamp)
    #item
    url = tweet['entities']['urls'][0]['display_url']
    item = extractYouTubeIDFRomLink(url)
    return user, item, timestamp
    
def extractDataset(tweets):
    dataset = list()
    for tweet in tweets:
        try:
            user, item, timestamp = extractDataFromTweet(tweet)
            if user == -1 or item == -1 or timestamp == -1:
                continue
        except:
            continue
        dataset.append((user, item, timestamp))
    return dataset
    
def writeDataset(dataset, filename):
    lines = list()
    for (user,item,timestamp) in dataset:
        line = str(user) + '::'  + str(item) + '::' + str(timestamp) + '\n'
        lines.append(line)
    with file(filename, 'a') as outfile:
        outfile.writelines(lines)
    
def writeTweets(tweets, filename):
    line = json.dumps(tweets, ensure_ascii = False).encode('UTF-8')
    with file(filename, 'w') as outfile:
        outfile.writelines(line)
        
def get_since_id(path):
    since_id  = 0
    for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, 'tweets_*.json') ):
        pattern = 'tweets_([0-9]*).json'
        p = re.compile(pattern,re.M | re.I)
        matches = p.findall(infile)
        id = int(matches[0])
        #keep maximum id
        since_id = max(id, since_id)
    return since_id

if __name__ == "__main__":        
    b = Backbone()

    datasetpath = 'datasets/YouTube'
    since_id = get_since_id(datasetpath)

    tweets, new_since_id =  b.searchTweets('I liked a @YouTube video', since_id)
    dataset = extractDataset(tweets)
    writeDataset(dataset, datasetpath + '/likes.dat')
    writeTweets(tweets,datasetpath + '/tweets_' + str(new_since_id) + '.json')