Alert on story update error

apiserver/feed.py

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ def get_content_type(url):
 def update_story(story, is_manual=False):
     res = {}
 
+    try:
         if story['source'] == 'hackernews':
             res = hackernews.story(story['ref'])
         elif story['source'] == 'lobsters':
@@ -78,6 +79,10 @@ def update_story(story, is_manual=False):
             res = tildes.story(story['ref'])
         elif story['source'] == 'manual':
             res = manual.story(story['ref'])
+    except BaseException as e:
+        utils.alert_tanner('Problem updating {} story, ref {}: {}'.format(story['source'], story['ref'], str(e)))
+        logging.exception(e)
+        return False
 
     if res:
         story.update(res) # join dicts

apiserver/feeds/lobsters.py

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def story(ref):
 
     s = {}
     try:
-        s['author'] = r['submitter_user']['username']
+        s['author'] = r['submitter_user']
         s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(s['author'])
     except KeyError:
         s['author'] = ''

apiserver/utils.py

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ import string
 
 from bleach.sanitizer import Cleaner
 
+def alert_tanner(message):
+    try:
+        logger.info('Alerting Tanner: ' + message)
+        params = dict(qotnews=message)
+        requests.get('https://tbot.tannercollin.com/message', params=params, timeout=4)
+    except BaseException as e:
+        logger.error('Problem alerting Tanner: ' + str(e))
+
 def gen_rand_id():
     return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(4))