Program for showing similar things

On tastekid.com you could find similar things like movies, book and music. They provide API which return XML or JSON response. Here are code, in Python which use this API. You could download source code from GitHub.

This program:

• will display similar things if you use it without options
• display information about movie/book/show/author if you put -i option
• display descriptions if you use -d options
• and translate them to your language with -l option.

Check -h options for more info.

#!/usr/bin/python
from urllib2 import urlopen, Request, HTTPError
from urllib import quote_plus
from sys import argv, stderr
from os.path import basename
from getopt import getopt, GetoptError
from StringIO import StringIO
import json

def gets(dict, *keys):
    "function generate values from dictionary which is on the list."  
    for e in keys:
	yield dict[e]

def partial_first(fun, *args):
    "return single argument function which execute function fun with arguments."
    def p(object):
	return fun(object, *args)
    return p

def gets_fun(*args):
    "return function which return values from dictinary which is on the list."
    return partial_first(gets, *args) 

class ServerJsonException(Exception):
    pass
	
class Similar(object):
    def __init__(self, stuff, type=None):
	query = quote_plus(stuff)
	if type:
	    query = '%s:%s' % (type, query)
	url = 'http://www.tastekid.com/ask/ws?&q=%s&format=JSON&verbose=1'
	response_data = urlopen(url % query).read()
	if not re.match('{.*}', response_data):
	    raise ServerJsonException
	#fix malform json
	response_data = response_data.replace('}{', '},{')
	self.data = json.load(StringIO(response_data))
	
    def infos(self):
	for i in self.data['Similar']['Info']:
	    yield Similar.Stuff(*list(gets(i, 'Name', 'Type', 'wTeaser')))

    def similar(self):
	"generate list of Stuff."
	results = self.data['Similar']['Results']
	if len(results) == 0:
	    yield None
	for result in results:
	    elems = list(gets(result, 'Name', 'Type', 'wTeaser', 'yTitle', 'yUrl'))
	    yield Similar.Stuff(*elems)
	    
    class Stuff(object):
	def __init__(self, name, type, description, y_title=None, y_url=None):
	    self.name = name.encode('UTF-8')
	    self.type = type.encode('UTF-8')
	    self.description = description.encode('UTF-8')
	    if y_title:
		self.y_title = y_title.encode('UTF-8')
	    if y_url:
		self.y_url = y_url.encode('UTF-8')

usage = """usage:
%s -d -i -y -l  
d - display descriptions
i - display only info
y - display youtube links
l - translate descriptions
    lang should be one of:
    af - afrikaans
    sk - albánskej
    ar - عربي
    be - Беларускі
    bg - Български
    zh - 荃湾
    zh - 太阳
    hr - Hrvatski
    cs - Český
    da - Danske
    et - Eesti
    tl - filipiński
    fi - Suomi
    fr - Français
    gl - galijski
    el - Ελληνικά
    iw - עברית
    hi - हिन्दी
    es - Español
    nl - Nederlands
    id - indonezyjski
    ga - Gaeilge
    is - Íslenska
    ja - 日本語
    yi - ייִדיש
    ca - Català
    ko - 한국의
    lt - Lietuvos
    lv - Latvijas
    mk - Македонски
    ms - Melayu
    mt - Malti
    de - Deutsch
    no - Norsk
    fa - فارسی
    pl - polski
    ru - Русский
    ro - Română
    sr - Српски
    sk - Slovenský
    sl - Slovenski
    sw - Swahili
    sv - Svenska
    th - ภาษาไทย
    tr - Türk
    uk - Український
    cy - walijski
    hu - Magyar
    vi - Việt
    it - Italiano

put "band:", "movie:", "show:", "book:" or "author:" before name if you want to specify search
""" % basename(argv[0])

def main():
    try:
        opts, rest = getopt(argv[1:], 'dl:iy')
    except GetoptError:
        print usage
        exit(1)
    opts = dict(opts)
    if opts.has_key('-h'):
        print usage
        exit(0)
    description = opts.has_key('-d')
    info = opts.has_key('-i')
    youtube = opts.has_key('-y')
    lang = opts.get('-l')
    if len(rest) == 0:
	print usage
    else:
	try:
	    stuff = Similar(' '.join(rest))
	    if info:
		for info in stuff.infos():
		    print '%s (%s)' % (info.name, info.type)
		    print
		    if lang:
			from xgoogle.translate import Translator
			translate = Translator().translate
			print translate(info.description, lang_to=lang)
		    else:
			print info.description
	    else:
		for stuff in stuff.similar():
		    print stuff.name
		    if youtube:
			print 'Youtube:'
			print '\t%s' % stuff.y_title
			print '\t%s' % stuff.y_url
		    if description:
			if lang:
			    from xgoogle.translate import Translator
			    translate = Translator().translate
			    print translate(stuff.description, lang_to=lang)
			else:
			    print stuff.description
	except ServerJsonException:
	    print >> stderr, "Error: can't read recived data from the server"


if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        #when user hit Ctrl-C
        exit(1)

You need xgoogle library to it to work, you can download it from here.

You can use like this (you can change name of the script to like)

like Matrix
or
like Matrix, Ghost in the shell

If you want to check two or more movies/books/shows separate them with coma. If the same name has movie and book you can put type of things before the name

like movie:the gathering

like music:the gathering

allowed types are movie, show, book and author

if you want to download all youtube files use on Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get instll youtube-dl

or

wget http://www.nuxified.org/system/files/youtube-install.sh
sudo ./youtube-install.sh

and then run the script:

for i in `similar.py -y $1 | grep http`; do
    youtube-dl $i
done