from xrd import XRD import urllib, urllib2 RELS = { 'avatar': 'http://webfinger.net/rel/avatar', 'hcard': 'http://microformats.org/profile/hcard', 'open_id': 'http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/provider', 'portable_contacts': 'http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0', 'profile': 'http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page', 'xfn': 'http://gmpg.org/xfn/11', } WEBFINGER_TYPES = ( 'lrdd', # current 'http://lrdd.net/rel/descriptor', # deprecated on 12/11/2009 'http://webfinger.net/rel/acct-desc', # deprecated on 11/26/2009 'http://webfinger.info/rel/service', # deprecated on 09/17/2009 ) class WebFingerExpection(Exception): pass class WebFingerResponse(object): def __init__(self, xrd): self._xrd = xrd def __getattr__(self, name): if name in RELS: return self._xrd.find_link(RELS[name], attr='href') return getattr(self._xrd, name) class WebFingerClient(object): def __init__(self, host, secure=False): self._host = host self._secure = secure self._opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler()) self._opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'python-webfinger')] def _hm_hosts(self, xrd): return [e.value for e in xrd.elements if e.name == 'hm:Host'] def xrd(self, url, raw=False): conn = self._opener.open(url) response = conn.read() conn.close() return response if raw else XRD.parse(response) def hostmeta(self): protocol = "https" if self._secure else "http" hostmeta_url = "%s://%s/.well-known/host-meta" % (protocol, self._host) return self.xrd(hostmeta_url) def finger(self, username): hm = self.hostmeta() hm_hosts = self._hm_hosts(hm) if self._host not in hm_hosts: raise WebFingerExpection("hostmeta host did not match account host") template = hm.find_link(WEBFINGER_TYPES, attr='template') xrd_url = template.replace('{uri}', urllib.quote_plus('acct:%s@%s' % (username, self._host))) return WebFingerResponse(self.xrd(xrd_url)) def finger(identifier, secure=False): if identifier.startswith('acct:'): (acct, identifier) = identifier.split(':', 1) (username, host) = identifier.split('@') client = WebFingerClient(host, secure) return client.finger(username) # example main method if __name__ == '__main__': import sys wf = finger(sys.argv[1], True) print "Avatar: ", wf.avatar print "HCard: ", wf.hcard print "OpenID: ", wf.open_id print "Profile:", wf.profile print "XFN: ", wf.find_link('http://gmpg.org/xfn/11', attr='href')