Hacker Term of the Day

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Author: Justin R. Andrusk <jandrusk@gmail.com>
"""

import sgmllib

class MyParser(sgmllib.SGMLParser):
    "A simple parser class."

    def parse(self, s):
        "Parse the given string 's'."
        self.feed(s)
        self.close()

    def __init__(self, verbose=0):
        "Initialise an object, passing 'verbose' to the superclass."

        sgmllib.SGMLParser.__init__(self, verbose)
        self.hyperlinks = []

    def start_a(self, attributes):
        "Process a hyperlink and its 'attributes'."

        for name, value in attributes:
            if name == "href":
                self.hyperlinks.append(value)

    def get_hyperlinks(self):
        "Return the list of hyperlinks."

        return self.hyperlinks

import urllib, sgmllib, random, string
baseurl = 'http://catb.org/jargon/html/'

c = random.choice('abcdefghij')  # Choose a random element
suburl1 = baseurl + c.upper()
# print "suburl1 is " + suburl1
# Get something to work with.
f = urllib.urlopen(suburl1)
s = f.read()

# Try and process the page.
# The class should have been defined first, remember.
myparser = MyParser()
myparser.parse(s)

import re, os
import tweepy
CONSUMER_KEY = '***********'
CONSUMER_SECRET = '*********'
ACCESS_KEY = '****************'
ACCESS_SECRET = '***************'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

article = random.choice(myparser.get_hyperlinks())

if (re.search('[A-z]\.html', article)):
    hackdict = suburl1 + '/' + article
    term = article.split('.', 1)
    api.update_status("Hacker Dictionary Term of the Day is " + str(term[0]) + ". #hackdict " + hackdict)