find_todos

def get_todos(auth_token):
    client = EvernoteClient(token=auth_token)
    note_store = client.get_note_store()

    # search for notes which have #todo content
    # see http://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search.php
    notefilter = NoteStore.NoteFilter()
    notefilter.words = '#todo'
    spec = NoteStore.NotesMetadataResultSpec()
    spec.includeTitle = True
    note_list = note_store.findNotesMetadata(auth_token, notefilter, 0, 100, spec)
    print 'Search for #todo found %d notes' % note_list.totalNotes

    # for each note, pull the #todo lines
    todos = []
    for note_search_result in note_list.notes:
        # pull note content
        note = note_store.getNote(
            auth_token,
            note_search_result.guid,
            True,
            False,
            False,
            False,
        )

        # find <li>'s with #todo text and print
        tree = ET.fromstring(note.content)
        elems = tree.findall('.//li')
        todo_elems = filter(lambda e: '#todo' in e.text, elems)
        for elem in todo_elems:
            s = '%s :: %s' % (note_search_result.title, elem.text)
            print s
            todos.append(s)

    return todos