friendica.py

A python3 module to access the friendica API, as documented in the friendica wiki at github. Additionally this module includes basic functions to handle the POCO information of a Friendica profile. You cal also use it to fetch information about the new stuff friendica usially notifies you about (the PING functionality).

Author: Tobias Diekershoff

Repository

The repository for this module, alongside with a bugtracker and a wiki is located at Bitbucket.

License

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Usage

Here is a basic example of the usage of the module.

import friendica
# make a new instance of friendica
f = friendica.friendica (server = 'your-friendica-node.tld',
                         username = 'your-nick',
                         password = 'some secret password')
# check that we are logged in
f.account_verify_credentials()

# get the current notifications
print (f.ping())

# post something with the default settings
f.statuses_update( status = "here is the message you are going to post" )

Additional to the official API

As addition to the official friendica API/POCO functionality, this module has some wrapper functions to API calls.

friendica.post: is a wrapper for the statuses/update function taking the same optional parameters, but stauts is called message because I like message more then status.

friendica.new_event: also a wrapper for statuses/update but tailored to post a new event entry to friendica. Mandatory arguments are event_summary and event_start. See the inline docs for more details.

ToDo

• Test that the proxy configuration is honoured
• Support the different connectors when posting a new entry over the API. Currently the post_to_connector parameter of the API call is simply ignores.
• If a protocol is specified in the server name parameter of the friendica constructor, use it

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