CloudBot/plugins/time.py

# Plugin by Lukeroge

from util import hook
from util import http
from util.formatting import capitalize_first

api_url = 'http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?format=plaintext'


@hook.command("time")
def time_command(inp, bot=None):
    "time <area> -- Gets the time in <area>"

    query = "current time in %s" % inp

    api_key = bot.config.get("api_keys", {}).get("wolframalpha", None)
    if not api_key:
        return "error: no wolfram alpha api key set"

    request = http.get_xml(api_url, input=query, appid=api_key)
    time = " ".join(request.xpath("//pod[@title='Result']/subpod/plain" \
                    "text/text()"))
    time = time.replace("  |  ", ", ")

    if time:
        # nice place name for UNIX time
        if inp.lower() == "unix":
            place = "Unix Epoch"
        else:
            place = capitalize_first(" ".join(request.xpath("//pod[@" \
                "title='Input interpretation']/subpod/plaintext/text()"))[16:])
        return "%s - \x02%s\x02" % (time, place)
    else:
        return "Could not get the time for '%s'." % inp