Script to Fetch BitBucket Tasks as Text

These days I am using Bitbucket for the git repository hosting and task management on my commercial projects. One thing I often need to do is fetch a list of current tasks so that I can update a client with what is on our current agenda for them, get feedback about priorities etc. Here's a short Python script I hacked together to do that based on some other public domain scripts I found out there:

import base64
import cookielib
import urllib2
import json

class API:
    api_url = 'http://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/'

    def __init__(self, username, password, proxy=None):
    encodedstring = base64.encodestring("%s:%s" % (username, password))[:-1]
    self._auth = "Basic %s" % encodedstring
    self._opener = self._create_opener(proxy)

    def _create_opener(self, proxy=None):
    cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
    cookie_handler = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)
    if proxy:
        proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler(proxy)
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookie_handler, proxy_handler)
    else:
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookie_handler)
    return opener

    def get_issues(self, username, repository, arguments):
    query_url = self.api_url + 'repositories/%s/%s/issues/' % (username,

repository) if arguments: query_url += "?" + "&".join(["=".join(a) for a in arguments]) try: req = urllib2.Request(query_url, None, {"Authorization": self._auth}) handler = self._opener.open(req) except urllib2.HTTPError, e: print e.headers raise e return json.load(handler)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    if len(sys.argv) < 5:
        print "Usage: %s username password baseuser repository" % (sys.argv[0],)
    else:
        result = API(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]).get_issues(sys.argv[3],

sys.argv[4], (("status", "new"), ("status", "open"), ("limit", "50"))) for p in result["issues"]: print " %s %s" % (p.has_key("responsible") and "*" or "", p["title"]) #print p["content"] print

Run it to get a usage message.

I secretly wish that bzr had won the distributed version control wars because of its superior user interface, but these days I am resigned to using git because pretty much everybody I have to inter-operate with is using it. It's not that bad.