stack-watcher 0.2

Installation

You can install stack-watcher using pip:

$ pip install stack-watcher

Usage

Here’s how to follow the most recent questions on Stack Overflow which have the “python” tag:

>>> from stack_watcher import Retriever
>>> retriever = Retriever(tag='python')
>>> for question in retriever.questions():
...    print(question.link)
...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24127601/uwsgi-request-timeout-in-python
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24127567/python-traceroute-doesnt-work
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24127395/web-crawler-url-address-failure
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24126915/python-logging-handler-dies
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24126663/how-to-disable-a-nosetest-plugin
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24126629/fedora-apache-wsgi-python-oracle

This will continue to run and pull in the latest questions until it’s killed. The question objects also have the following attributes:

>>> question.__dict__
{'question_id': 24126663,
 'title': 'how to disable a nosetest plugin',
 'link': 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24126663',
 'creation_date': 1402339020,
 'tags': ['python', 'nose', 'nosetests'],
 'score': 2,
 'view_count': 10,
 'answered': False,
 'owner_display_name': 'ftravers',
 'owner_link': 'http://stackoverflow.com/users/408489/ftravers',
 'owner_id': 408489,
 'owner_reputation': 966,
 'owner_accept_rate': 50}

Licence

Copyright © 2014 Matt Deacalion Stevens, released under The MIT License.