qotnews/apiserver/feeds/manual.py

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import logging
logging.basicConfig(
format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
level=logging.DEBUG)
import requests
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
USER_AGENT = 'Twitterbot/1.0'
def api(route):
try:
headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT}
r = requests.get(route, headers=headers, timeout=5)
if r.status_code != 200:
raise Exception('Bad response code ' + str(r.status_code))
return r.text
except KeyboardInterrupt:
raise
except BaseException as e:
logging.error('Problem hitting manual website: {}'.format(str(e)))
return False
def story(ref):
html = api(ref)
if not html: return False
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features='html.parser')
s = {}
s['author'] = 'manual submission'
s['author_link'] = 'https://news.t0.vc'
s['score'] = 0
s['date'] = int(time.time())
s['title'] = str(soup.title.string)
s['link'] = ref
s['url'] = ref
s['comments'] = []
s['num_comments'] = 0
return s
# scratchpad so I can quickly develop the parser
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(story('https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/'))