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This code sample in python pulls quotes and images from daylife for a given query.

But in a fun way.

from mod_python import apache
from mod_python import util
import urllib
import urllib2
import cjson
import md5

# Base URLs and authentication information
ACCESSKEY = '8befa1cf0a7c0291613242235638a662'
SHARED_SECRET = '2e548ef751397c653752057adcff0c9f'
IMAGE_URL = 'http://freeapi.daylife.com/jsonrest/publicapi/4.1/search_getRelatedImages?include_publication_images=1&limit=10&signature=%s&accesskey=%s&offset=0&query=%s'
QUOTE_URL = 'http://freeapi.daylife.com/jsonrest/publicapi/4.1/search_getRelatedQuotes?limit=7&signature=%s&accesskey=%s&offset=0&query=%s'


def index(req):
	request_data = util.FieldStorage(req)
	query = request_data.get('query', None)
	page_data = get_response(query)    
	req.content_type = 'text/html'
	req.send_http_header()
	req.write(str(page_data))

# Creates the appropriate page  
def get_response(query):
	if query is None:
		return BAD_QUERY_PAGE
	signature = calc_signature(ACCESSKEY, SHARED_SECRET, query)
	
	quotes = retrieve_daylife_results(QUOTE_URL % (signature, ACCESSKEY, urllib.quote(query)), 'quote')
	if len(quotes) == 0:
		return NO_DATA_PAGE % (query.upper(), query.capitalize())
	
	image = retrieve_daylife_results(IMAGE_URL % (signature, ACCESSKEY, urllib.quote(query)), 'image')
	return generate_result_page(quotes, image, query)


# Gets results from the DayPi           
def retrieve_daylife_results(url, result_type):
	opener = urllib.urlopen(url)
	data = opener.read()
	results = cjson.decode(str(data))
	
	# If there was an error with the query, return no results
	if results['response']['code'] < 0: return []
	
	# All results from the DayPi are returned nested in a 'payload' object,
	#   which is nested inside a 'response' object.
	return results['response']['payload'][result_type]
	
# Use the authentication information to generate a query.    
def calc_signature(accesskey, sharedsecret, query):
	m = md5.new()
	m.update(accesskey)
	m.update(sharedsecret)
	m.update(query)
	return m.hexdigest()

# Build the page data
def generate_result_page(quotes, image, query):
	page_data = '
				   
"""
	if len(image) > 0:
		page_data += ''
	page_data +='
'
	for item in quotes:
		page_data += '"'+item['quote_text']+'" at '+item['source']['name']+''
		page_data += '

'
	page_data += '
'
	return page_data


BAD_QUERY_PAGE = """
				  ...WHAT are you looking for?!?"""

NO_DATA_PAGE = """
				  %s - not what the cool kids are into..."""