48 lines
1.6 KiB
Python
48 lines
1.6 KiB
Python
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries
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#
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
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"""
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This example will access the reddit API, grab a number like subreddit followers
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and display it on a screen
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If you can find something that spits out JSON data, we can display it!
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"""
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import time
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import board
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from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
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SUBREDDIT = "circuitpython"
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# Set up where we'll be fetching data from
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DATA_SOURCE = "https://www.reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT+"/about.json"
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DATA_LOCATION = ["data", "subscribers"]
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CAPTION="reddit.com/r/"+SUBREDDIT
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# the current working directory (where this file is)
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cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
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pyportal = PyPortal(url=DATA_SOURCE, json_path=DATA_LOCATION,
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status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
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default_bg=cwd+"/reddit_background.bmp",
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text_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-50.bdf",
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text_position=(210, 80),
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text_color=0xFFFFFF,
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caption_text=CAPTION,
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caption_font=cwd+"/fonts/Collegiate-24.bdf",
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caption_position=(40, 200),
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caption_color=0xFFFFFF)
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# track the last value so we can play a sound when it updates
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last_value = 0
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while True:
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try:
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value = pyportal.fetch()
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print("Response is", value)
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if last_value < value: # ooh it went up!
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print("New subscriber!")
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pyportal.play_file(cwd+"/coin.wav")
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last_value = value
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except (ValueError, RuntimeError, ConnectionError, OSError) as e:
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print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
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time.sleep(60)
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