def send_to_db(cat_name, info_object): # TODO: replace certain characters which are formatted incorrectly # info_object['name'] = info_object['name'].replace('&', '&') item = {} data = {} sub_data = {} item['message_type'] = 'write' item['collection'] = cat_name.replace('$', '').replace('-', '').replace( '.', '').replace(' ', '').lower() item['data'] = info_object json_data = json.dumps(item, indent=2) service = RequestHandler() service.handle_crawler(json_data)