def ExtractArticleText( self, title ):
"""Tries to extract the text from an archived acticles HTML"""
if not self.session.query(self.Articles).filter(self.Articles.title==title).count():
print 'Article',title,'not found in archive database'
return False
Artdata = self.session.query(self.Articles).filter(self.Articles.title==title).one()
if not Artdata.ArchivedHTML:
#print 'Article',title,'HTML not archived, attempting to archive now'
#check = self.ArchiveArticleHTML( title )
#if not check:
# print 'Failed to archive article HTML.'
print 'Article',title,'HTML not archived, oh well...'
url = Artdata.url
reporter = Reporter()
reporter.read( url = url )
try:
Artdata.TEXT = reporter.report_news().encode('latin-1', 'ignore')
except UnicodeDecodeError:
print 'there is something gross in thier text...'
return False
Artdata.ArchivedText = True
Artdata.ArchiveTextTime = time.time()
self.session.commit()
return True
from reporter import Reporter test = 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-latvia-young-people-discover-new-passions-in-bad-economic-times/2013/07/29/ac638cac-efbf-11e2-8c36-0e868255a989_story.html' test2 = 'http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/making-decisions-together-when-you-dont-agree-on-whats-important/' my_reporter = Reporter() my_reporter.read(url=test2) print my_reporter.report_news()
