Reminder that with lemm.ee shutting down, this community is moving over to !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online. Crossposting here while lemm.ee is still around, but make sure to subscribe to the new community.
Reminder that with lemm.ee shutting down, this community is moving over to !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online. Crossposting here while lemm.ee is still around, but make sure to subscribe to the new community.
Reminder that with lemm.ee shutting down, this community is moving over to !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online. Crossposting here while lemm.ee is still around, but make sure to subscribe to the new community.
Neat! You should definitely post then, it's better if I'm not the single-point-of-failure for comics posting. I'll post my still-somewhat-wip script for posting the Peanuts comic, which uses GoComic and probably has a lot of overlap with C&H.
I run python post_stuff.py
, which imports other scripts for each comic and runs them. get_lemmy.py
handles caching auth credentials for up to several days (I'm sure it could go longer but I haven't checked the docs yet). Caching the creds and running it all from a wrapper entry point keeps the number of logins down, which I was getting rate limited on. It doesn't currently handle accounts with MFA enabled, but it should be pretty resilient to stuff like file upload failing.
You can just ignore the image munging bits and probably some other bits, that was for turning the 1x4 Peanuts strip into a 2x2 post here. You might find interesting stuff by poking around on the site, Peanuts has a transcript for each comic in the HTML, though I don't see that for C&H.
I've also been meaning to publish the git repo somewhere, hopefully this will motivate me to get around to doing that.
`pyproject.toml` dependencies section
dependencies = [
"backoff~=2.2",
"beautifulsoup4~=4.12",
"pythorhead~=0.26",
"requests~=2.32",
"urllib3>=2.2.3",
]
`get_lemmy.py`
import json
import logging
import os
from base64 import b64decode
from datetime import datetime
from pythorhead import Lemmy
def load_token(lemmy: Lemmy):
token_path = "./tmp/lemmy-token.txt"
try:
with open(token_path) as f:
token = json.load(f)
print("Cached token found")
iat = json.loads(b64decode(token["token"].split(".")[1]))["iat"]
iat = datetime.fromtimestamp(iat)
now = datetime.now()
if (now - iat).seconds > 3 * 24 * 3600:
print("Token has expired, ignoring")
raise FileNotFoundError
print("Token hasn't expired, using")
lemmy._requestor._auth.token = token["token"]
lemmy._requestor.logged_in_username = token["logged_in_username"]
except FileNotFoundError:
print("Cached token not found, logging in")
username = os.environ["LEMMY_USERNAME"]
password = os.environ["LEMMY_PASSWORD"]
if not lemmy.log_in(username, password):
raise Exception("Couldn't log in!")
with open(token_path, "w") as f:
json.dump({"token": lemmy._requestor._auth.token, "logged_in_username": username}, f)
def get_authed_lemmy() -> Lemmy:
with open(".env") as f:
os.environ.update(dict(line.strip().split("=") for line in f.readlines()))
logging.getLogger("backoff").addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
lemmy = Lemmy(os.environ["LEMMY_DOMAIN"])
load_token(lemmy)
return lemmy
`post_peanuts.py`
import json
import subprocess
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import date, datetime
from html import unescape
from pathlib import Path
from tempfile import TemporaryFile
import backoff
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pythorhead import Lemmy
from pythorhead.types import LanguageType, SortType
from get_lemmy import get_authed_lemmy
@dataclass
class Strip:
local_path: str
transcript: str
image_url: str | None = None
def munge_image(input_image_file) -> bytes:
crop_command = ["magick", "-", "-crop", "25%x100%", "+repage", "+adjoin", "miff:-"]
montage_command = ["montage", "-", "-tile", "2x2", "-geometry", "+0+0", "miff:-"]
final_command = [
"magick",
"-",
"-resize",
"200%",
"-colors",
"256",
"-depth",
"8",
"-filter",
"Box",
"-sharpen",
"0x2.0",
"png:-",
]
with subprocess.Popen(
crop_command,
stdin=input_image_file,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
) as crop_result:
with subprocess.Popen(
montage_command,
stdin=crop_result.stdout,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
) as montage_result:
final_bytes = subprocess.run(
final_command,
stdin=montage_result.stdout,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
check=True,
)
return final_bytes.stdout
def ensure_downloaded(date: date) -> Strip | None:
isodate = date.isoformat()
formatted_date = date.strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
local_path = Path("./tmp/") / f"peanuts-{isodate}.png"
if local_path.exists():
strip = json.loads(local_path.with_suffix(".json").read_text())
transcript = strip["transcript"]
print(f"Found existing file, using {local_path}")
return Strip(local_path=str(local_path), transcript=transcript)
base_url = "https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/"
url = f"{base_url}{formatted_date}"
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
picture_element = soup.find("picture", class_="item-comic-image")
if picture_element is None:
if date.today().weekday() == 1:
print("No comic, expected since it's Tuesday")
return
else:
raise Exception("It's not Tuesday and found no comic!")
image_url = picture_element.find("img").get("src")
print(f"Image URL found: {image_url}")
with TemporaryFile("wb") as f:
response = requests.get(image_url)
response.raise_for_status()
f.write(response.content)
f.seek(0)
munged_bytes = munge_image(f)
with open(local_path, "wb") as rf:
rf.write(munged_bytes)
print(f"Comic saved as: {local_path}")
description = soup.find("meta", property="og:description")
transcript = "\n>\n".join(
f"> {line.strip()}"
for line in unescape(description.get("content")).replace("<BR>", "\n").splitlines()
if line
)
local_path.with_suffix(".json").write_text(json.dumps({"transcript": transcript}))
return Strip(local_path=str(local_path), transcript=transcript)
@backoff.on_exception(
backoff.expo,
(requests.exceptions.RequestException, ValueError),
max_tries=16,
base=6,
max_time=120,
)
def ensure_uploaded(lemmy, path):
print(f"Ensuring {path=} is uploaded...")
marker_path = Path(path).with_suffix(".json")
if marker_path.exists():
print(f"Reading uploaded path from existing {marker_path=}")
metadata = json.loads(marker_path.read_text())
if "image_url" in metadata:
return metadata["image_url"]
else:
raise Exception(f"Does not exist! {marker_path=}")
print(f"Didn't find {marker_path=}, uploading")
uploaded = lemmy.image.upload(path)
if uploaded is None:
raise ValueError("Got `None` for `uploaded`")
metadata["image_url"] = uploaded[0]["image_url"]
marker_path.write_text(json.dumps(metadata))
return metadata["image_url"]
def ensure_posted(lemmy: Lemmy, community_id: int, date: date, strip: Strip):
if date.weekday() == 6:
print("It's Tuesday (i.e. Sunday in comic time), skipping post.")
return
posts = lemmy.post.list(community_id, sort=SortType.New)
non_tribute_posts = []
for post in posts:
try:
comic_date = datetime.strptime(post["post"]["name"], "%d %B %Y").date()
except ValueError:
# Tribute Tuesday post, probably. Ignore
continue
non_tribute_posts.append((comic_date, post))
newest_post_date, newest_post = sorted(non_tribute_posts, key=lambda x: x[0])[-1]
if newest_post_date == date:
print("All caught up!")
return
print("Need to post latest comic")
body = f"Transcript:\n\n{strip.transcript}"
post = lemmy.post(
community_id,
date.strftime("%-d %B %Y"),
url=strip.image_url,
body=body,
language_id=LanguageType.EN,
)
if post:
print(post)
else:
raise Exception("Failed to post!")
def main(lemmy: Lemmy):
year_offset = date.today().year - 2024
today = date.today().replace(year=1950 + year_offset)
strip = ensure_downloaded(today)
if not strip:
print(f"Got {strip=}, it's probably Tuesday, so ignoring...")
return
else:
print(strip)
community_id = lemmy.discover_community("peanuts@midwest.social")
strip.image_url = ensure_uploaded(lemmy, strip.local_path)
ensure_posted(lemmy, community_id, today, strip)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(get_authed_lemmy())
`post_stuff.py`
import post_oglaf
import post_peanuts
import post_smbc
from get_lemmy import get_authed_lemmy
def main():
lemmy = get_authed_lemmy()
post_peanuts.main(lemmy=lemmy)
post_smbc.main(lemmy=lemmy)
post_oglaf.main(lemmy=lemmy)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
cc @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on ☝️btw, pythorhead
has been super useful! You might be interested in the use case of handling creds like I do there, maybe that's something the library could do?
I'm willing to help mod and/or post
I'm willing to help mod and/or post
Looks like something weird happened with federation of promoting me as mod. I've created this account if you want to make this one mod instead