Example of using djapp.org API

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
That simple script demonstrates the possibility of remote interacting with djapp.org service.
Script accepts only one argument - search string.
"""
import sys
import logging
import urllib

query = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])

if not query:
    logging.error('Usage: %s <query string>' % sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit()

BASE_URL = 'http://djapp.org'
url = BASE_URL + '/api/search?query=%s' % urllib.quote(query)
resp = urllib.urlopen(url).read()

count = 0

for line in resp.splitlines():
    if line.strip():
        count += 1

        slug, name, summary, url = line.split('||')
        url = BASE_URL + url
        print name
        print '    %s' % summary
        print '    %s' % url
        print

print 'Number of results: %d' % count