Identi.ca feed fetcher script

Attached is a simple Identi.ca feed fetcher script written in python. It is a console program and has no gui. It will display the same content as would appear on a users Identi.ca homepage for a given user. Edit the configuration at the head of the script before use.

It works well with conky; simply add ${exec python /path/to/script.py} to your conky file and it will update whenever your conky refreshes. If your conky config is set to update very frequently, please use ${execi interval /path/to/script.py} so that you are not constantly polling identi.ca's server.

Edit: Updated script to correctly encode text and to include replies. Edit2: Inline script to fix broken link.

Script:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright (C) 2008 Steven
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# Blog: http://blog.stebalien.com

import feedparser
import textwrap
import unicodedata
### SETTINGS ###
# Username (lowercase)
USER = "stebalien"
# Width in charictars of output
WIDTH = 50
# Number of posts to display
POSTS = 10

# Indent of posts
INDENT_FIRST = 3
INDENT_REST = 5

################

def formatPost(string):
    #string = string..replace(unicode("“", "utf-8"), '"').replace(unicode("”", "utf-8"), '"').replace(unicode("…", "utf-8"), '...').replace(unicode("’", "utf-8"), "'")
    string = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string).encode('ascii','ignore')
    parts = string.partition(':')
    return parts[0] + parts[1] \
    + "\n" + wrapper.fill('\n' \
    + parts[2]) \
    + "\n\n"
    
wrapper = textwrap.TextWrapper()
wrapper.subsequent_indent = ' '*INDENT_FIRST
wrapper.initial_indent = ' '*INDENT_REST
wrapper.width = WIDTH
# Get and display feed
all_feed = feedparser.parse("http://identi.ca/" + USER + "/all/rss")
reply_feed = feedparser.parse("http://identi.ca/" + USER + "/replies/rss")

n = 0
i = 0

while ((i+n) < POSTS):
    while (reply_feed.entries[n].updated_parsed > all_feed.entries[i].updated_parsed):
        print "> " + formatPost(reply_feed.entries[n].title)
        n=n+1
    print "  " + formatPost(all_feed.entries[i].title)
    i=i+1