granary 1.12

The social web translator

Granary is a library and REST API that fetches and converts social network data between a wide variety of formats:

• Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, and Twitter native APIs

• Instagram and Google+ scraped HTML

• ActivityStreams 1.0 and 2.0

• microformats2 HTML and JSON

• Atom

• XML

• JSON Feed

Try out the interactive demo and check out the docs.

License: This project is placed in the public domain.

Using

The library and REST API are both based on the OpenSocial Activity Streams service.

Let’s start with an example. This code using the library:

from granary import twitter
...
tw = twitter.Twitter(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
tw.get_activities(group_id='@friends')

is equivalent to this HTTP GET request:

https://granary.io/twitter/@me/@friends/@app/
  ?access_token_key=ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY&access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

They return the authenticated user’s Twitter stream, ie tweets from the people they follow. Here’s the JSON output:

{
  "itemsPerPage": 10,
  "startIndex": 0,
  "totalResults": 12,
  "items": [{
      "verb": "post",
      "id": "tag:twitter.com,2013:374272979578150912",
      "url": "http://twitter.com/evanpro/status/374272979578150912",
      "content": "Getting stuff for barbecue tomorrow. No ribs left! Got some nice tenderloin though. (@ Metro Plus Famille Lemay) http://t.co/b2PLgiLJwP",
      "actor": {
      "username": "evanpro",
        "displayName": "Evan Prodromou",
        "description": "Prospector.",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/evanpro",
      },
      "object": {
        "tags": [{
            "url": "http://4sq.com/1cw5vf6",
            "startIndex": 113,
            "length": 22,
            "objectType": "article"
          }, "..."],
      },
    }, "..."]
  "..."
}

Check out the docs for more!