AndresVargas

Hi!, my nickName is zodman, im a Computer science Engineering. love the FLOSS and FreeSoftware. Python ninja and php coder. On left my love Aisha and me.

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Django with twitter status

sept. 1, 2008

Im add a simple tag on django with my twitter last status. It's cached because twitter haves problems with alots of request...... so here the code

Create a templatetags on your model/ dir

# filename twitter.py
from django.template import Library
import urllib
import simplejson

register = Library()

@register.simple_tag
def twitter_status( username ):
    url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.json?count=1" % username
    file  = urllib.urlopen(url)
    json_responce = file.read()
    twit = simplejson.loads(json_responce)
    return "%s" % twit[0]["text"]

Add it to my index.html page on templates

   {%load cache %}
       {% cache 18000 twitter %}
       {% load twitter %}
    <div class="twitter">
        <img src="/static/images/twitter.gif">
        @zodman: {% twitter_status "zodman" %}
    </div>
  {% endcache %}

Yeap my firts time of used cache on templates. That is very similar of the code of my friend blacknash, he Implement it on blog of h1pp1e

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