Re: [Orgmode] iPhone ----> org-mode

[Ian Barton]

> Pretty simple - it could be cleaner, and filenames and such are
> hardcoded, but it should be easy for anyone to fix it up or simply
> replace the filenames and formatting to their liking. It's simple ...
> but still feels like magic when I press one button on my iPhone in the
> car, and what I spoke is sitting in my gtd.org when I get to the
> office :) ... tarball of hack attached. Note that my awk is from OS X,
> should work on linux as well though (I first got it running on linux,
> but had to escape some / characters in a pattern match to get
> reqallxml.awk to work on my mac and haven't tested it again on linux).

Appended is a quick hack in Python that appends items from the rss feed 
to an org file. Tasks are give the guid property, which is used to 
identify which tasks have already been imported.

Requires Mark Pilgrim's feed parser (think this is already part of 
Python) and Charles Cave's orgnode.py. Note orgnode.py seems to have a 
bug, where it requires at least one entry in the file.

Ian.

#!/usr/bin/python

import feedparser

# Note the current version of orgnode.py
# requires a file with at least one entry.
import orgnode


REQUALL_URL = 'Requall RSS feed url'

ORG_FILE = 'todo.org'

def write_task(task):
    logfile = open(ORG_FILE, 'a')

    str = "* TODO %s\n:PROPERTIES:\n:guid: %s\n:END:\n%s\n" % (task.title, 
task.guid, task.description)
    logfile.write(str)

    logfile.close()

def load_org_file():
    """
    Create a list of org objects.
    """
    nodelist = orgnode.makelist(ORG_FILE)
    return nodelist


# Open and parse the rss feed.
d = feedparser.parse(REQUALL_URL)

print d.feed.title

for entry in d['entries']:
    nodelist = load_org_file()
    guids = []

    # build a list of all the guids in the org file.
    for node in nodelist:
        guids.append(node.Property('guid'))

    # Only add entries for guids that are not already in the file.    
    if entry.guid in guids:
        print "Entry skipped."
    else:    
        write_task(entry)
        print entry.title
        print entry.category
        print entry.description