def new_post():
post = Post()
post.site_name = 'shavemyface'
post.forum_url = forum_url
post.forum_id = forum_id
post.forum_name = forum_name
post.topic_name = topic_name
post.topic_id = topic_id
return post
def extract_posts(self, soup, filename):
"""Extract posts"""
forum = soup.find('td', 'navbar-links').find('a', {'href': re.compile('^viewforum.php\?.*')})
forum_url = forum['href']
forum_id = re.search('(\d+)', forum_url).group(1)
forum_name = self.get_text(forum)
topic = soup.find('td', 'content content-navbar').table.find('span', 'gen').a
topic_name = topic.b.string
topic_url = topic['href']
topic_id = re.search('viewtopic.php.*\Wt=(\d+)', topic_url).group(1)
posts = []
messages = soup.findAll('div', 'postbody')
for msg in messages:
post = Post()
posts.append(post)
post.site_name = 'menessentials'
post.forum_url = forum_url
post.forum_id = forum_id
post.forum_name = forum_name
post.topic_name = topic_name
post.topic_id = topic_id
date = msg.parent.find('span', 'postdate')
post.date = datetime.strptime(self.get_text(date), "Posted: %a %b %d, %Y %I:%M %p")
user = msg.parent.parent.find('span', 'name').a
if user:
post.user_name = user.string
post.user_url = user["href"]
post.user_id = re.search('u=(\d+)', post.user_url).group(1)
post.quote = []
for quote in reversed(msg.findAll('table', 'quote')): # Reverse, to handle nested quotes
quote.extract()
q = Quote()
q.text = self.get_text(quote.find('td', 'quote'))
quote_user = self.get_text(quote.find('td', 'quote_user'))
q.user_name = re.sub('\s*wrote:$', '', quote_user)
post.quote.append(q)
# Now, after quotes are removed, we can extract the text of the post
post.text = self.get_text(msg)
# Extract links
post.link = []
for link in msg.findAll('a', href=True):
post.link.append(link['href'])
print >>sys.stderr, ' ', len(posts), 'posts'
return posts