#!/usr/bin/python """ This is an example of using the Ohloh API from Python. Detailed information can be found at the Ohloh website: http://www.ohloh.net/api This example uses the ElementTree library for XML parsing (included in Python 2.5 and newer): http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm This example retrieves basic Ohloh account information and outputs it as simple name: value pairs. Pass your Ohloh API key as the first parameter to this script. Ohloh API keys are free. If you do not have one, you can obtain one at the Ohloh website: http://www.ohloh.net/api_keys/new Pass the email address of the account as the second parameter to this script. """ import sys, urllib, hashlib import elementtree.ElementTree as ET # We pass the MD5 hash of the email address email = hashlib.md5() email.update(sys.argv[2]) # Connect to the Ohloh website and retrieve the account data. params = urllib.urlencode({'api_key': sys.argv[1], 'v': 1}) url = "http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/%s.xml?%s" % (email.hexdigest(), params) f = urllib.urlopen(url) # Parse the response into a structured XML object tree = ET.parse(f) # Did Ohloh return an error? elem = tree.getroot() error = elem.find("error") if error != None: print 'Ohloh returned:', ET.tostring(error), sys.exit() # Output all the immediate child properties of an Account for node in elem.find("result/account"): if node.tag == "kudo_score": print "%s:" % node.tag for score in elem.find("result/account/kudo_score"): print "\t%s:\t%s" % (score.tag, score.text) else: print "%s:\t%s" % (node.tag, node.text)