Implements a simple load balancer to divide API requests among 5 servers.

Made possible thanks to @cheeaun's work on hackerweb.
Moves hackernews to its own module.
Adds test for hackernews module.

hackertray/__init__.py

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     import appindicator_replacement as appindicator
 
+from hackernews import HackerNews
+
 class HackerNewsApp:
 	def __init__(self):
 		#Load the database
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@ class HackerNewsApp:
 
 	'''Refreshes the menu '''
 	def refresh(self, widget=None, data=None):
-		data = reversed(getHomePage()[0:20]);
+		data = reversed(HackerNews.getHomePage()[0:20]);
 		#Remove all the current stories
 		for i in self.menu.get_children():
 			if(hasattr(i,'url')):
@@ -114,11 +116,6 @@ class HackerNewsApp:
 		#Call every 5 minutes
 		gtk.timeout_add(5*60*1000, self.refresh)
 
-'''Returns all the news stories from homepage'''
-def getHomePage():
-	r = requests.get('https://node-hnapi.herokuapp.com/news')
-	return r.json()
-
 def main():
 	indicator = HackerNewsApp()
 	indicator.run()

hackertray/hackernews.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import random
+import requests
+
+urls = [
+	'http://node-hnapi-eu.herokuapp.com/', # Heroku (EU)
+	'http://node-hnapi.azurewebsites.net/', # Windows Azure (North EU)
+	'http://node-hnapi-asia.azurewebsites.net/', # Windows Azure (East Asia)
+	'http://node-hnapi-eus.azurewebsites.net/', # Windows Azure (East US)
+	'http://node-hnapi-weu.azurewebsites.net/', # Windows Azure (West EU)
+	'http://node-hnapi-wus.azurewebsites.net/', # Windows Azure (West US)
+	'http://node-hnapi-ncus.azurewebsites.net/' # Windows Azure (North Central US)
+];
+
+class HackerNews:
+	@staticmethod
+	def getHomePage():
+		random.shuffle(urls)
+		for i in urls:
+			r = requests.get(i+"news")
+			try:
+				return r.json()
+			except ValueError:
+				continue;
+			finally:
+				print i

hackertray/hn_test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import unittest
+from hackernews import HackerNews
+
+class HNTest(unittest.TestCase):
+	def runTest(self):
+		data = HackerNews.getHomePage()
+		self.assertTrue(len(data)>0)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()

setup.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(name='hackertray',
-      version='1.5',
+      version='1.6',
       description='Hacker News app that sits in your System Tray',
       long_description='HackerTray is a simple Hacker News Linux application that lets you view top HN stories in your System Tray. It relies on appindicator, so it is not guaranteed to work on all systems. It also provides a Gtk StatusIcon fallback in case AppIndicator is not available.',
       keywords='hacker news hn tray system tray icon hackertray',