Allow comic text to be optional. Patch from TobiX

dosagelib/scraper.py

@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ class _BasicScraper(object):
     # sometimes comic strips have additional text info for each comic
     textSearch = None
 
+    # Is the additional text required or optional?  When it is required (the
+    # default), you see an error message whenever a comic page is encountered
+    # that does not have the text
+    textOptional = False
+
     # usually the index format help
     help = ''
 
@@ -123,7 +128,7 @@ class _BasicScraper(object):
             patterns = [x.pattern for x in makeSequence(self.imageSearch)]
             out.warn(u"found no images at %s with patterns %s" % (url, patterns))
         if self.textSearch:
-            text = fetchText(url, data, self.textSearch)
+            text = fetchText(url, data, self.textSearch, optional=self.textOptional)
             if text:
                 text = unescape(text).strip()
         else:

dosagelib/util.py

@@ -251,13 +251,14 @@ def fetchUrl(url, data, baseUrl, urlSearch):
     return fetchUrls(url, data, baseUrl, urlSearch)[0]
 
 
-def fetchText(url, data, textSearch):
+def fetchText(url, data, textSearch, optional=False):
     """Search text entry for given text pattern in a HTML page."""#
     match = textSearch.search(data)
     if match:
         text = match.group(1)
         out.debug(u'matched text %r with pattern %s' % (text, textSearch.pattern))
         return text
+    if not optional:
         raise ValueError("Pattern %s not found at URL %s." % (textSearch.pattern, url))