You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
 
 
 
 

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import logging
logging.basicConfig(
format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
level=logging.DEBUG)
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from datetime import datetime
# cache the topic groups to prevent redirects
group_lookup = {}
USER_AGENT = 'qotnews scraper (github:tannercollin)'
API_TOPSTORIES = lambda : 'https://tildes.net'
API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://tildes.net/shortener/{}'.format(x)
SITE_LINK = lambda group, ref : 'https://tildes.net/{}/{}'.format(group, ref)
SITE_AUTHOR_LINK = lambda x : 'https://tildes.net/user/{}'.format(x)
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 BaseException as e:
logging.error('Problem hitting tildes website: {}'.format(str(e)))
return False
def feed():
html = api(API_TOPSTORIES())
if not html: return []
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features='html.parser')
articles = soup.find('ol', class_='topic-listing').findAll('article')
return [x['id'].split('-')[1] for x in articles] or []
def unix(date_str):
return int(datetime.strptime(date_str, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ').timestamp())
def comment(i):
i = i.article
c = {}
c['author'] = str(i.find('a', class_='link-user').string)
c['score'] = 1
c['date'] = unix(i.find('time')['datetime'])
c['text'] = i.find('div', class_='comment-text').encode_contents().decode()
ct = i.find('ol', class_='comment-tree')
c['comments'] = [comment(j) for j in ct.findAll('li', recursive=False)] if ct else []
return c
def story(ref):
if ref in group_lookup:
html = api(SITE_LINK(group_lookup[ref], ref))
else:
html = api(API_ITEM(ref))
if not html: return False
if 'Topic deleted by author' in html: return False
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features='html.parser')
a = soup.find('article', class_='topic-full')
h = a.find('header')
s = {}
s['author'] = str(h.find('a', class_='link-user').string)
s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(s['author'])
s['score'] = int(h.find('span', class_='topic-voting-votes').string)
s['date'] = unix(h.find('time')['datetime'])
s['title'] = str(h.h1.string)
s['group'] = str(soup.find('a', class_='site-header-context').string)
group_lookup[ref] = s['group']
s['link'] = SITE_LINK(s['group'], ref)
ud = a.find('div', class_='topic-full-link')
s['url'] = ud.a['href'] if ud else s['link']
sc = a.find('ol', id='comments')
s['comments'] = [comment(i) for i in sc.findAll('li', recursive=False)]
ch = a.find('header', class_='topic-comments-header')
s['num_comments'] = int(ch.h2.string.split(' ')[0]) if ch else 0
td = a.find('div', class_='topic-full-text')
if td:
s['text'] = td.encode_contents().decode()
return s
# scratchpad so I can quickly develop the parser
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(feed())
normal = story('gxt')
print(normal)
no_comments = story('gxr')
print(no_comments)
self_post = story('gsb')
print(self_post)
li_comment = story('gqx')
print(li_comment)
# make sure there's no self-reference
import copy
for x in [normal, no_comments, self_post, li_comment]:
_ = copy.deepcopy(x)