blip.pl is a Polish microblogging service (some kind of Polish twitter). Today I’d like to present how to integrate python application (django application) with blip.pl API.

First of all… full documentation of blip.pl API is available here: http://blip.pl/api-0.02.html

It’s in Polish, however if you want to integrate your app with this service you propably know Polish (if not – notice, that it works as a standard REST + JSON compilation, so it shouldn’t be a problem to implement this functionality even for someone, who doesn’t Polish).

Ok, stop talking, start coding…

Open *.py file with your model and change “save()” method:

def save(self):
    if not self.id:
        if self.blip_message:
	        import httplib, base64
	        from django.utils import simplejson

  	        http_url = 'http://api.blip.pl/updates'
                API_HEADERS = {
	            'Content-Type' : 'application/json',
	            'X-Blip-api' : '0.02',
	            'User-Agent' : 'Karol Zielinski blip API',
	            'Authorization' : 'Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode('BLIP.PL_USERNAME:BLIP.PL_PASSWORD'))
	        }

	        update = {}
	        update['body'] = self.blip_message

	        post_params = simplejson.dumps(update)

	        connection = httplib.HTTPConnection('api.blip.pl')
	        connection.request('POST', http_url, headers=API_HEADERS, body=post_params)

	        response = connection.getresponse()
	        headers = response.getheaders()
	        status = response.status
	        resp_data = response.read()

and that’s all.

After you will add new item to this model – message from attribute blip_message will be added to your account on blip.pl.

Easy, isnt’t it?

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