{"id":2219,"date":"2010-02-12T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T06:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T06:08:30","slug":"svn-to-twitter-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/svn-to-twitter-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"SVN To Twitter Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s one of those projects that you dream up just to avoid doing more important\/useful work: FFmpeg SVN to Twitter gateway<\/a>. I, too, am now contributing to the notorious fail whale.<\/p>\n

All the kids are talking about this Twitter thing these days. I have read up on some kind of open API they offer<\/a>. I’m not really that keen on these modern web-based APIs. I had a feeling that someone must have a Python API for it and sure enough: python-twitter<\/a>. So that takes care of that half of the gateway.<\/p>\n

The other half is interfacing to FFmpeg SVN. I already have this part reasonably figured out thanks to FATE<\/a>— my current method is to simply execute ‘svn’ via shell and parse the stdout. It seems that there are a few cleaner Python-oriented solutions for this. But all I really need is to parse the current revision number from ‘svn info’ and then parse the output of ‘svn log -r <rev>’.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the craziest part of my solution is that I’m using an sqlite3 database to store a single piece of data– the revision. Hey, I just find it to be the simplest solution, oddly enough. <\/p>\n

I imagine it would be possible to engineer the Twitter update as a function triggered during a commit. However, I tend to think it’s not a good idea to have a commit trigger that is dependent on an RPC call to a web service that has a tenuous uptime reputation.<\/p>\n

Now to sit back and see if anyone actually follows the account (besides spammers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow FFmpeg development on Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t