User is unable to open url's shortened by Twitters URL shortener

• System: Kubuntu 18.04
• Python version: 2.7
• rainbowstream v 1.3.7

Repro:

1. Launch rainbowstream

2. Locate a tweet that contains a URL shortened by Twitters URL shortener(https://t.co/wNYPltI7ll )

3. Type open id#

Expected:

• The link will open in the default web browser.

Bug:

• No url here @.@! is displayed.

Additional Notes:

• I’ve confirmed that bit.ly and ow.ly shortened links open correctly in my setup.

[RandomCore]

I don’t know any Python, but I was able to figure out some workaround for the “No url here @.@” problem. It seems the problem is based on the place of the shown URL in the Twitter API return value for a tweet. So adding some code in rainbow.py function urlopen() to find different places for the URLs does the magic:

def urlopen():
    ...
    urls = tweet['entities']['urls']
    if not urls:
        try:
            urls = tweet['entities']['media']
        except:
            urls = {}
    if not urls:
        try:                                                                                    
            urls = tweet['retweeted_status']['quoted_status']['entities']['urls']               
        except:                                                                                 
            urls = {}                                                                           
                                                                                                   
    if not urls:                                                                                
        printNicely(light_magenta('No url here @.@!'))                                          
        return
    ...

I don’t know, if I have found all places for URLs. Maybe someone can improve on this.

[nstr10]

It looks like the URLs are provided by Twitter’s API library, so this may need to be addressed upstream.