ttrss-python is a light-weight client library for the JSON API of Tiny Tiny RSS. Handling JSON in Python can be quite a pain, so this library abstracts all that away to deliver Python object representations of categories, feeds and articles. Also, the specific calls and POST data sent to the server is handled automatically, so that you can focus on the stuff that matters to your frontend application.
Sounds good so far? Great, let’s get started!
This package is available at PyPI, so the easiest way to install is by doing a pip install ttrss-python. This will install the latest released version, as well as all dependencies. Currently, the only dependency is the awesome Python requests library for handling all the http requests.
If you for some reason can’t or don’t want to use pip, just download the tarball and run python setup.py install manually.
It’s highly recommended to use virtualenv for this (and any other for that matter!) installation.
The first thing you need to do is instantiate a TTRClient. The constructor requires three arguments; URL, your username and your password:
>>> from ttrss.client import TTRClient
>>> client = TTRClient('http://url-to-tiny-tiny', 'username', 'super-secret-password')
>>> client.login()
If you want the client to login automatically, as well as automatically refresh an expired session cookie, you may supply the optional keyword argument auto_login=True. Note that this may affect performance in a high-traffic client application, since it uses a response hook to check every server response for a NOT_LOGGED_IN message:
>>> client = TTRClient('http://url-to-tiny-tiny', 'username', 'super-secret-password', auto_login=True)
Refer to the API docs for details on how to retrieve objects from the server.
Category objects contain attributes describing the category, as well as a method to retrieve feeds contained in it. Assuming a category object called cat:
>>> cat.title
u'Example category'
>>> cat.unread
20
>>> cat.id
2
To retrieve a list of feeds belonging to this category, simply type:
>>> cat.feeds()
[<ttrss.client.Feed object at 0x103a0cfd0>, <ttrss.client.Feed object at 0x103478a50>]
The feeds method accepts parameters as well. Please refer to the API docs for details.
Like category objects, feed objects contain metadata and a method to retrieve headlines:
>>> feed.title
u'MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories'
>>> feed.last_updated
datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 24, 21, 18, 29)
>>> feed.unread
24
>>> feed.feed_url
u'http://feeds.macrumors.com/MacRumors-All'
>>> feed.id
5
>>> feed.headlines()
[<ttrss.client.Headline object at 0x103a0cfd0>, ...]
Headlines are short versions of articles. They too include all useful metadata:
>>> headline.title
u'Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million'
>>> headline.excerpt
u'The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired indoor location company WifiSLAM, paying aro…'
>>> headline.link
u'http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/23/apple-acquires-indoor-mobile-location-positioning-firm-wifislam-for-20-million/'
>>> headline.updated
datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 24, 21, 18, 29)
>>> headline.unread
True
>>> headline.tags
[u'front page']
>>> headline.published
True
>>> headline.labels
[]
>>> headline.id
1
>>> headline.feed_id
u'5'
To get the full article, simply type:
>>> headline.full_article()
<ttrss.client.Article object at 0x103a0cf90>
Article objects include all the useful information:
>>> article.link
u'http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/23/apple-acquires-indoor-mobile-location-positioning-firm-wifislam-for-20-million/'
>>> article.title
u'Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million'
>>> article.updated
datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 24, 21, 18, 29)
>>> article.comments
u''
>>> article.author
u'Eric Slivka'
>>> article.id
1
>>> article.unread
True
>>> article.content
u"Lots of text... "
Article objects also include some useful methods for interaction:
>>> article.publish() # Publish to shared
>>> article.toggle_unread() # Toggle unread status
You may also refresh the information about an article with fresh data from the server. This is useful if you have a long-running script and interact with the server by other means while it’s running:
>>> article.unread
True
# Mark the article as read in the web interface or some other client...
>>> article.refresh_status()
>>> article.unread
False
This project is open source and MIT licensed. The source code is available at https://github.com/Vassius/ttrss-python
Bugreports, feature requests and other feedback is very much appreciated, and best submitted in the GitHub project mentioned above. If you’re a doer and want to patch something yourself - Awesome! Just fork my repo and submit a pull request.
ttrss-python is written and maintained by Markus Wiik <vassius@gmail.com>
This section will become more detailed over time as I add docstrings to the source code.
Bases: ttrss.client.RemoteObject
Share this article to published feed
Refresh this object with new data fetched from the server.
Toggle unread status of this article
Bases: ttrss.client.RemoteObject
Get a list of feeds for this category.
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Mark this feed as read
Get a list of headlines from a this feed.
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Bases: ttrss.client.RemoteObject
This class represents Headline objects. A headline is a short version of an article.
Get the full article corresponding to this headline
Bases: object
This is the base class for representing remote resources as Python objects.
Bases: object
This is the actual client interface to Tiny Tiny RSS.
This object retains a http session with the needed session cookies. From the client you can fetch categories, feeds, headlines and articles, all represented by Python objects. You can also update modify articles and feeds on the server.
Attempt to mark all articles in specified feed as read.
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Get a list of articles from article ids.
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Get a list of all available categories
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Get total number of subscribed feeds.
Get a list of feeds in a category.
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Get a list of headlines from a specified feed.
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Get total number of unread articles
Manually log in (i.e. request a session cookie)
This method must be used if the client was not instantiated with auto_login=True
Log out.
After logging out, login() must be used to gain a valid session again. Please note that logging out invalidates any automatic re-login even after logging back in.
Mark an article as read.
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Mark an article as unread.
| Parameters: | article_id – ID of article to mark as unread. |
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Update all properties of an article object with fresh information from the server.
Please note that this method alters the original object and does not return a new one.
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Share an article to the published feed.
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Toggle the unread status of an article.
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