From 554478149edff53c3864336a29c423c08362e39d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moritz Kiefer <moritz.kiefer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:17:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add function to retrieve userinfo

---
 .gitignore |  1 +
 diaspy.py  | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 666aa6a..1ebd6c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 *.swp
 docs/build/*
 __pycache__/*
+.env
 
diff --git a/diaspy.py b/diaspy.py
index 66d9d38..9bbb3ee 100644
--- a/diaspy.py
+++ b/diaspy.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 """
 import requests
 import re
+import json
 
 class Client:
     """This is the client class to connect to diaspora.
@@ -60,3 +61,13 @@ class Client:
                 'status_message[text]': text,
                 'authenticity_token': token}
         r = self._session.post(self._pod + "/status_messages", data=data)
+
+    def getUserInfo(self):
+        """ This function return the current user's attributes
+        :returns dict -- json formatted user info
+
+        """
+        r = self._session.get(self._pod + "/stream")
+        regex = re.compile(r'window.current_user_attributes = ({.*})')
+        userdata = json.loads(regex.search(r.text).group(1))
+        return userdata
-- 
2.25.1