I wanted a few programming projects to do to keep juices flowing. I came up with two twitter ones, http://twitter.com/slugupdates and http://twitter.com/cityrailupdates. Inspired by Lindsay’s bushfire project.

They are both little python programmes.

slugupdates just waits for messages posted to the slug announce list, procmail carbon copies the message and pipes it to the programme, the programme uses the subject as the tweet message.

cityrailupdates scrapes the major delays announcement page and tweets the time and title. It uses python’s beautifulsoup to do the scraping.

Both projects were fun and satisfying. I’ve still got some work to do with cityrailupdates, I want to save the whole message in a database and have a little front end to it for historical data.