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Twitter bot weatherlisbon

This little bash script shows how to use curl, grep, tail, sed and perl one-liners in order to compose a bleeding-edge twitter bot.
This one returns daily weather forecasts for Lisbon city based on the BBC weather forecast rss feed.

#! /bin/sh

#Goto here
here=/home/guillaume/Personal
cd $here

#BBC Lisbon weather id
id=0048

#BBC weather RSS feed address
feed="http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/${id}.xml"

#City
city=lisbon

#temporary file
file="weather${city}"

#Weather twitter bot
twitbot=weatherlisbon:*******

#Timestamp the log file
echo .>> $file.log
date >> $file.log

#Read the RSS feed and filter it
curl $feed | grep 'title' | tail -n 1 | perl -wlne'm/title>(.*)<\/title/i && print $1' | sed -e "s/&#xB0;//g" > $file.txt

#Read the forecast into a weather variable
read weather < $file.txt

#Twit the weather variable away
curl --basic --user $twitbot --data status="$weather" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >> $file.log

Simple popen2 implementation

I needed a simple popen2 implementation. This is similar to popen, but allows for bidirectional communication with the application being executed. Based on some other examples, I put this together. It makes for a good base.

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define READ 0
#define WRITE 1

pid_t
popen2(const char *command, int *infp, int *outfp)
{
    int p_stdin[2], p_stdout[2];
    pid_t pid;

    if (pipe(p_stdin) != 0 || pipe(p_stdout) != 0)
        return -1;

    pid = fork();

    if (pid < 0)
        return pid;
    else if (pid == 0)
    {
        close(p_stdin[WRITE]);
        dup2(p_stdin[READ], READ);
        close(p_stdout[READ]);
        dup2(p_stdout[WRITE], WRITE);

        execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", command, NULL);
        perror("execl");
        exit(1);
    }

    if (infp == NULL)
        close(p_stdin[WRITE]);
    else
        *infp = p_stdin[WRITE];

    if (outfp == NULL)
        close(p_stdout[READ]);
    else
        *outfp = p_stdout[READ];

    return pid;
}


Simple usage would be:

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int infp, outfp;
    char buf[128];

    if (popen2("sort", &infp, &outfp) <= 0)
    {
        printf("Unable to exec sort\n");
        exit(1);
    }

    write(infp, "Z\n", 2);
    write(infp, "D\n", 2);
    write(infp, "A\n", 2);
    write(infp, "C\n", 2);
    close(infp);

    *buf = '\0';
    read(outfp, buf, 128);

    printf("buf = '%s'\n", buf);

    return 0;
}
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