[{"pk": 1, "model": "blog.category", "fields": {"slug": "django", "title": "Django"}}, {"pk": 5, "model": "blog.category", "fields": {"slug": "google", "title": "Google"}}, {"pk": 4, "model": "blog.category", "fields": {"slug": "photography", "title": "Photography"}}, {"pk": 2, "model": "blog.category", "fields": {"slug": "python", "title": "Python"}}, {"pk": 3, "model": "blog.category", "fields": {"slug": "web", "title": "Web"}}, {"pk": 4, "model": "blog.post", "fields": {"body": "Let me start this off by saying that there is no official API for Google Voice. Voice was a product developed by GrandCentral and then subsequently bought out by Google. The tricky part about this transfer was the terms of service which Google has adapted and modified. Included in Google's ToS is this little sticky bit outlining the service for personal, non-commercial use only.\r\n\r\n`GRANT OF RIGHTS TO USE SERVICES. Effective upon acceptance of this Agreement, Google Voice hereby grants to Subscriber a personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and use the Services (as defined below), for Subscriber's non-commercial use.`\r\n\r\nThis probably means that Google is not going to get around to making an API anytime soon. Not feeling like waiting around for Google, I endeavored to create a Python implementation. The interesting thing about Voice is thati it uses a very particular API for its web interface, but just has no documentation anywhere for it. The web app just makes a series of authenticated requests to the Voice server, which allows it to place calls, send sms messages, and most of the communication is done with xml. I say most because the standard data format is wrapped in an ugly XML envelope. Here is what a typical response looks like\r\n\r\n :::xml\r\n <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n <response>\r\n <json><![CDATA[{\"messages\":{\"3b8d9d77...]]></json>\r\n <html><![CDATA[\r\n <div id=\"3b8d9d77...\"\r\n class=\"goog-flat-button gc-message gc-message-read\">\r\n <div class=\"gc-message-bg\">\r\n ... \r\n ]]></html>\r\n </response>\r\n\r\nNote that even w/o the commercial issues, there is an interesting social networking app that allows you to broadcast a quick call/message to a local group of friends (e.g., let's get together). The API would be useful even for interesting non-commercial social networking use - there's likely a whole generation of apps find an way to use this.", "status": 2, "allow_comments": true, "author": 1, "tease": "The emerging concept of a Google Voice API", "modified": "2009-08-12 03:50:45", "publish": "2009-08-11 23:37:37", "created": "2009-08-11 23:48:39", "categories": [5, 2, 3], "title": "Hacking Away at Voices in The Ether", "slug": "hacking-away-at-voice", "tags": ""}}, {"pk": 3, "model": "blog.post", "fields": {"body": "I love the site [Digital Blasphemy](http://digitalblasphemy.com) and the photos they produce. The best feature of their site is their [free gallery](http://digitalblasphemy.com/freegallery.shtml) section which provides a lot of their premium content for free. They rotate this collection often, so there are always new impressive images. On the site they are nice, but I wanted all of them on my desktop without paying for their service.\r\n\r\n<p>The solution I came up with is this python script that follows. It grabs all the images from their free gallery and downloads them into your Pictures folder.</p>\r\n\r\n :::python\r\n #!/usr/bin/env python\r\n\r\n from urllib import urlopen, urlretrieve\r\n from os import path\r\n \r\n site = 'http://digitalblasphemy.com'\r\n ddir = path.expanduser('~/Pictures/')\r\n find = lambda s,p: s.find(p) > -1\r\n width = '1920'\r\n \r\n for l in urlopen('%s/freegallery.shtml' % site).readlines():\r\n if find(l, 'w=%s' % width):\r\n for u in ['%s/fshow%s' % (site, x.split('\">')[0]) \\\r\n for x in l.split('fshow') if find(x, 'w=%s' % width)]:\r\n for xl in urlopen(u).readlines():\r\n if find(xl, 'width=\"%s\"' % width):\r\n p = xl.strip().split('src=\"')[1].split('\"')[0]\r\n fn = path.join(ddir, path.basename(p))\r\n if not path.isfile(fn): urlretrieve(site+p, fn)\r\n\r\n<p>Short, sweet, and completely unintelligible. Just be glad it works. Also for those of you playing along at home, that runs in O(N<sup>4</sup>), which his absolutely horrendous, but performance was not a huge concern. Here are some examples of images you can download from their free gallery</p>\r\n\r\n<center>\r\n<a href=\"http://digitalblasphemy.com/\"><img width=\"150\" src=\"http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l242/suki243/IMG_2705.jpg\"/></a>\r\n<a href=\"http://digitalblasphemy.com/\"><img width=\"150\" src=\"http://www.thespacewriter.com/thetismoon_small.jpg\"/></a>\r\n<a href=\"http://digitalblasphemy.com/\"><img width=\"150\" src=\"http://www.roumazeilles.net/images/digitalblasphemy.jpg\"/></a>\r\n</center>\r\n\r\nI personally put this script into a cron job and run it every so often. It dumps the images into my Pictures folder, which I set my desktop background to randomly rotate through. They do not update their free gallery very often, but its a nice surprise to see an awesome backround appear out of no where.", "status": 2, "allow_comments": true, "author": null, "tease": "Capturing Digital Blasphemy's free gallery", "modified": "2009-08-12 03:35:20", "publish": "2009-08-11 15:23:34", "created": "2009-08-11 15:24:23", "categories": [4, 2, 3], "title": "Digital Blasphemy - Blasphemy", "slug": "blasphemy", "tags": ""}}, {"pk": 1, "model": "blog.post", "fields": {"body": "<p>\r\nWelcome to django-mingus, the Django powered blog engine.\r\n</p>", "status": 2, "allow_comments": true, "author": null, "tease": "Hey there world.", "modified": "2009-07-01 23:22:04", "publish": "2009-07-01 23:19:39", "created": "2009-07-01 23:20:29", "categories": [1], "title": "Welcome", "slug": "welcome", "tags": "blog, mingus"}}]
