def get_staff_forum_posts(thread_id, search_start=1):
"""
returns:
a list of StaffPosts for each post made by a staff member in the page
the new page count value that has been searched to
search_start is the page number to begin the search from
"""
posts = []
# forum has feature to only get staff posts from the thread
page_count = get_page_count(filter_staff(url_of_id(thread_id)))
for i in range(search_start, page_count + 1):
soup = get_page_soup(
filter_staff(url_of_id(thread_id)) + "/page/" + str(i))
# get the table of forum rows
post_table = soup.find("table", class_="forumPostListTable")
if post_table is None:
# catch all for cases where the page returns something that isn't a forum post list
# for whatever reason
return [], 0
for row in post_table.find_all("tr"):
# ignore if this isn't a staff post at all (I've seen this for poll threads)
if not row.has_attr("class"):
continue
# if this row is one of the newspost details rows, ignore it
if "newsPostInfo" in row["class"]:
continue
author = get_post_author_from_row(row)
post_id = get_post_id_from_row(row)
# convert the retrieved html into markdown
text = htmltomd.quote_boxify(
htmltomd.convert(str(get_post_from_row(row))))
post_date = get_post_date_from_row(row)
# a bug in the website sometimes causes 2 pages of forum posts to return the same forum post
if not check_for_duplicate(posts, post_id):
posts.append(
StaffPost(post_id, thread_id, author, text, post_date))
return posts, page_count
def test_pre_complex(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values_v2('pre_complex')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_inline_code(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values_v2('inline_code')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_basic(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('basic')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_iframe_embed(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('iframe_embed')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_nested_quote(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('nested_quote')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, (htmltomd.convert(html)))
def test_nested_types(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('nested_types')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_raw_embedded_video(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('raw_embedded_video')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_italics_whitespace(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('italics_whitespace')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_a(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('a')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
html, expected_output = self.load_values('a_no_href')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_list(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('list')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_successive_tags(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('successive')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_empty_tag(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('empty_tag')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_table_tag(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values_v2('table')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_quote_challenge_titles(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values_v2('challenge_quote')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_strong_inline(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values('strong_inline')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))
def test_code_quoteboxed(self):
html, expected_output = self.load_values_v2('code_quoteboxed')
self.assertEqual(expected_output, htmltomd.convert(html))