["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/16668.141.html?tID=16677&mon=jul", "Latest releases"],
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/16668.141.html?tID=16676&mon=aug", "Latest releases"],
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/16668.141.html?tID=16678&mon=sep", "Latest releases"],
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/16668.141.html?tID=16679&mon=oct", "Latest releases"],
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/16668.141.html?tID=16680&mon=nov", "Latest releases"],
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/10804.146.html", "Archive releases"], # 2005
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/10805.145.html", "Archive releases"], # 2006
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/10806.144.html", "Archive releases"], # 2007
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/10807.143.html", "Archive releases"], # 2008
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/13342.html", "Archive releases"], # 2009
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/13661.html", "Archive releases"], # 2010
["http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/15263.html", "Archive releases"], # 2011
]
dt = DumpTruck(dbname="scotland.db")
dt.create_table({"Title": "",
"Publication date": "",
"Old URL": "",
"Summary": "",
"Attachments": "",
"Type": "",
"Associated organisations": ""}, "publications")
dt.create_index(["Title", "Old URL"], "publications", unique=True)
for url, page_type in URLS:
for publication in scrape_list_page(url):
publication['Type'] = page_type
dt.upsert(publication, "publications")
dumptruck_to_csv(dt, "publications", "/home/http/scotland/publications.csv")
def scrape_main_article(url):
req = requests.get(url)
doc = lxml.html.fromstring(req.text)
div = doc.xpath("//*[@class='wrapper']")[0]
div.remove(div.find("h1"))
for para in div.findall("p"):
if para.find("strong") is not None:
div.remove(para)
return htmlize(etree.tostring(div))
dt = DumpTruck(dbname="scotland.db")
dt.create_table({"Title": "",
"Publication date": "",
"Old URL": "",
"Summary": "",
"Body": "",
"Associated organisations": ""}, "news")
dt.create_index(["Title", "Old URL"], "news", unique=True)
for url in URLS:
for news_item in scrape_list_page(url):
attachments = json.loads(news_item.pop("Attachments"))
link = attachments[0]["link"]
news_item["Old URL"] = link
news_item["Body"] = scrape_main_article(link)
dt.upsert(news_item, "news")
dumptruck_to_csv(dt, "news", "/home/http/scotland/news.csv")
