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
def extract_posts(self, soup, filename):
"""Extract posts"""
# Forum and topic info will be the same for all posts
forum = soup.find('a', 'nav', href=re.compile('^viewforum.php\?'))
forum_url = forum['href']
forum_id = re.search('\Wf=(\d+)', forum_url).group(1)
forum_name = self.get_text(forum)
topic = soup.find('a', 'maintitle', href=re.compile('^viewtopic.php\?'))
topic_name = topic.string
topic_url = topic['href']
topic_id = re.search('\Wt=(\d+)', topic_url).group(1)
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
posts = []
messages = soup.findAll('span', 'postbody')
for msg in messages:
# ignore empty spans (or spans already used; see below)
if not msg.contents:
continue
# check that this is not a quote
if msg.parent.get('class', None) == 'quote':
continue
post = new_post()
posts.append(post)
# Extract date and subject
details = msg.parent.parent.parent.find('span', 'postdetails')
date = details.find(text=re.compile('Posted: .*'))
post.date = datetime.strptime(date.string, "Posted: %a %b %d, %Y %I:%M %p")
subject = details.find(text=re.compile('Post subject: .*'))
post.subject = re.sub(r'.*Post subject: ', '', subject.string)
# Extract user name and id
container = msg.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent
post.user_name = container.td.find('span', 'name').b.string
post_footer = container.findNextSiblings('tr', limit=1)[0]
user_link = post_footer.find('a', href=re.compile(r'^profile.php\?'))
if user_link:
post.user_url = user_link['href']
post.user_id = re.search(r'profile.php\?.*\bu=(\d+)', post.user_url).group(1)
# Extract quotes
quotes = msg.parent.findAll('td', 'quote')
if not quotes: quotes = []
for quote in reversed(quotes): # reverse elements, so that quotes will come out in the correct order
container = quote.parent.parent
container.extract()
q = Quote()
q.text = self.get_text(quote)
quote_user = container.find('span', 'genmed').b.string
q.user_name = re.sub('\s*wrote:$', '', quote_user)
if hasattr(post, 'quote'):
post.quote.append(q)
else:
post.quote = [q]
# Extract post content and links
# All span.postbody siblings constitute post content
spans = msg.parent.findAll('span', 'postbody')
post.text = '\n'.join([self.get_text(span) for span in spans])
# Extract links
post.link = []
for span in spans:
for link in span.findAll('a', href=True):
post.link.append(link['href'])
# Empty spans that we've used
for span in spans:
span.contents = []
print >>sys.stderr, ' ', len(posts), 'posts'
return posts