From ac27668621c3349cea2f77864994c257b0622c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nebula <nebula@tilde.town>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 03:46:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add support for json dumping before/after supplied timestamp

---
 bink.py | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bink.py b/bink.py
index d63b0ff..77ec5b8 100755
--- a/bink.py
+++ b/bink.py
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ max_body_length = 64_000
 helptext = """see https://git.tilde.town/nebula/bink for details
 --help or -h: show this message
 --pipe or -p: use stdin as post content. ex `echo "hello!" | town bink --pipe`
---dump or -d: print all posts in a json object"""
+--dump or -d: print all posts in a json object
+---dump-before or -db: print all posts before timestamp supplied as an additional argument
+---dump-after or -da: print all posts after timestamp supplied as an additional argument"""
 
 try:
     os.mkdir(home)
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ def glob_posts(path):
         if os.path.isfile(post_path) and not os.path.islink(post_path)
     ]
 
-def generate_feed(before=None, count=200):
+def generate_feed(before=None, after=None, count=200):
     posts = glob_posts("/home/**/.bink/*")
     if our_path:
         posts += glob_posts(f"{our_path}/*")
@@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ def generate_feed(before=None, count=200):
             posts.remove(post)
     if before:
         posts = [post for post in posts if post[0] < before]
+    elif after:
+        posts = [post for post in posts if post[0] > after]
     posts.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
     blogs = []
     for time, user, path in posts[:count]:
@@ -86,14 +90,37 @@ def generate_feed(before=None, count=200):
     return blogs
 
 if len(sys.argv) > 1:
-    if sys.argv[1] in ("--help", "-h"):
+    argv1 = sys.argv[1]
+    if argv1 in ("--help", "-h"):
         print(helptext)
         exit(0)
-    elif sys.argv[1] in ("--dump", "-d"):
+    elif argv1 in ("--dump", "-d"):
         with open("/dev/stdout", "w") as f:
             json.dump(generate_feed(), f)
         exit(0)
-    elif sys.argv[1] in ("--pipe", "-p"):
+    elif argv1 in ("--dump-before", "-db"):
+        try:
+            with open("/dev/stdout", "w") as f:
+                json.dump(generate_feed(before=int(sys.argv[2])), f)
+            exit(0)
+        except ValueError:
+            print(f"Argument for {argv1} must be a number of epoch-nanoseconds.")
+            exit(1)
+        except IndexError:
+            print(f"Supply a timestamp to use this method.")
+            exit(1)
+    elif argv1 in ("--dump-after", "-da"):
+        try:
+            with open("/dev/stdout", "w") as f:
+                json.dump(generate_feed(after=int(sys.argv[2])), f)
+            exit(0)
+        except ValueError:
+            print(f"Argument for {argv1} must be a number of epoch-nanoseconds.")
+            exit(1)
+        except IndexError:
+            print(f"Supply a timestamp to use this method.")
+            exit(1)
+    elif argv1 in ("--pipe", "-p"):
         try:
             with open("/dev/stdin", "r", encoding="UTF-8") as f:
                 body = f.read().strip()