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Using Tenor API in Python for printing gifs

So, I am trying to print out gifs by using Tenor API.
I want it to only print one gif link but it prints out everything any Idea how to fix this?
Thank you.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/xf084.png

Sadly, I can not tell you the exact problem you are having, I replicated your code and used the official API Docs here
From what I can tell, this is one GIF just in a lot of different formats.
You can filter them like so:
print(top_8gifs['weburl'])
or
print(top_8gifs['results'][0])
EDIT: Looking at your .png (please embed it as code in the future) this should work for you, if you want the url:
print(top_8gifs[0]['url'])
A Python dict you can select using the key (like gifs['weburl'])
A Python list you have to select by index so gifs[0]
Using these techniques you can gather the data you need from that output.

How do I find out what I can do with the Pelican signals? I'm trying to write a plugin

The signals are sort-of described here but, then what?
For example, one of the signals is desribed:
invoked before writing each article, the article is passed as content
How do I change that content? How do I access it? What functions are available?
I've been looking at examples in the pelican plugins repo on github, but I'm still confused. (How did those people even learn how to write those plugins?)
I hardly know where to start.

You have to look at the source code of pelican. I think there is no better way.
For example, search for the signal you are interested in, e.g. article_generator_write_article: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=article_generator_write_article
Then, look into the search result, e.g. generators.py and click on the line number containing your signal. Of course, you could also create a clone and do all this locally. This depends on your way of working.
Surrounding code:
def generate_articles(self, write):
"""Generate the articles."""
for article in chain(self.translations, self.articles):
signals.article_generator_write_article.send(self, content=article)
write(article.save_as, self.get_template(article.template),
self.context, article=article, category=article.category,
override_output=hasattr(article, 'override_save_as'), blog=True)
As you can see, the signal call provides you with an article object. You can now 1) look in the source code to find the respective python class of this object to find out about its inner workings, methods and attributes or 2) go the hacky path and simply print the object's members print(article.__dict__).
I suppose, without having looked in the code, that article has an attribute content which contains the HTML code generated from your source file. This is where your desired change comes in.
Note that if you want to change the source code before processing this is not that easy. I just wrote a little plugin which is capable of doing this.
There you can also see the signal API in action. You simply have to connect a handler function to the desired signal.
I hope this helps :)

xgoogle python library is not working any more?

I was using the xgoogle python library for one of my projects. It was working fine till recently. I am not getting the resultset that I used to get before. If anyone who has used this library written by Peter Krummins, faced a similar situation, can you please suggest a work around ?

The presence of BeautifulSoup.py hints that this library uses web scraping to get its result.
A common problem with this is that it will easily break when the design/layout of the page being scraped changes. And the problem you see seems to coincide with the new search results layout that Google introduced just recently.
Another problem is that it often is against the terms of service of the site being scraped. And according to point 5.3 of the Google Terms Of Service it actually is:
You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) [...]
A better idea would be to use the Custom Search API.

Peter Krumin's product xgoogle looks to be extremely useful both to me and I image many others.
https://github.com/pkrumins/xgoogle
For me the current version is 1.3 is not working.
I tried a new install from GitHub, ran the examples and nothing is returned.
Adding a debugger to the source code and tracing the data captured in a query to its disappearance the problem occurs in a routine called search.py subroutine "_extract_results" at a parser command
results = soup.findAll('li', {'class': 'g'})
The soup object has material in it but the "findAll" fails to return anything.
Looks like its searching for lists and if there are none it returns nothing.
I am unsure what html you would try to match to get a result.
If anyone knows how to make the is work I am very interested.

A little more googling and it appears xgoogle is no longer supported or works.
Part of the trouble is that Google changes the layout of its results pages every so often and so any scraping software that assumes some standard layout is in time doomed to failure.
There are however other search engines that are locally installed and thus provide a results layout that are less likely change with upgrades and will not change at all if you don't upgrade.
I am currently investigating Yacy. Easy to install and can be pointed at specific sites if you want.

Different results for the same RSS feed fetching from different user agents

If I add a feed URL to Google Reader or to a desktop feed aggregator, I receive nice results. The URL is:
http://estaticos03.marca.com/rss/futbol_1adivision.xml
But when I fetch the same URL from a script (python script, using feedparser library) I am getting slightly different content for the same results (the title for each entry, for example, is different and all in uppercase).
I believe something is done on the server-side to try to discourage people like me to parse the content for my own projects (the feed is from a popular football newspaper), but I am not sure about it. I tried to pass some user agents (like the google reader one) but still no luck, so maybe they check the IP as well? I am really confused.
Any idea why is this happening to me?
Thanks!

AFAIK Google Reader does some "magic" in the content to beautify it. They strip some tags and styles to avoid breaking their interface.
Can you provide more details on the differences?

Did you changed the user agent of your script? Try to mimic Firefox and see what happen.

All right folks, I found it. I analyzed the source XML received (as #TryPyPy). I had been trusting too much the feedparser library. Latest official version (4.1) has a bug related to mistakeing the title tag from media namespace instead of the original one:
http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=76
So I reinstalled from trunk and now everything is OK. Thanks for helping anyway!

Search function with PyGTKsourceview

I'm writing a small html editor in python mostly for personal use and have integrated a gtksourceview2 object into my Python code. All the mayor functions seem to work more or less, but I'm having trouble getting a search function to work. Obvioiusly the GUI work is already done, but I can't figure out how to somehow buildin methods of the GTKsourceview.Buffer object (http://www.gnome.org/~gianmt/pygtksourceview2/class-gtksourcebuffer2.html) to actually search through the text in it.
Does anybody have a suggestion? I find the documentation not very verbose and can't really find a working example on the web.
Thanks in advance.

The reference for the C API can probably be helpful, including this chapter that I found "Searching in a GtkSourceBuffer".
As is the reference for the superclass gtk.TextBuffer

Here is the python doc, I couldn't find any up-to-date documentation so I stuffed it in my dropbox. Here is the link. What you want to look at is at is the gtk.iter_forward_search and gtk.iter_backward_search functions.