#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (C) 2012 Bastian Kleineidam """ Script to get a list of creators.com comics and save the info in a JSON file for further processing. """ from __future__ import print_function import re import sys import os sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..")) from dosagelib.util import getPageContent, asciify, unescape, tagre from scriptutil import contains_case_insensitive, capfirst, save_result, load_result json_file = __file__.replace(".py", ".json") url_matcher = re.compile(tagre("a", "href", r'(/comics/[^/]+)\.html') + r'([^<]+)') # names of comics to exclude exclude_comics = [ ] def handle_url(url, res): """Parse one search result page.""" print("Parsing", url, file=sys.stderr) try: data, baseUrl = getPageContent(url) except IOError as msg: print("ERROR:", msg, file=sys.stderr) return for match in url_matcher.finditer(data): url = match.group(1) name = unescape(match.group(2)) name = asciify(name.replace('&', 'And').replace('@', 'At')) name = capfirst(name) if name in exclude_comics: continue if contains_case_insensitive(res, name): # we cannot handle two comics that only differ in case print("INFO: skipping possible duplicate", name, file=sys.stderr) continue res[name] = url def get_results(): """Parse all search result pages.""" # store info in a dictionary {name -> shortname} res = {} handle_url('http://www.creators.com/comics/cat-seeall.html', res) save_result(res, json_file) def print_results(args): """Print comics.""" for name, url in sorted(load_result(json_file).items()): if name in exclude_comics: continue print("add(%r, %r)" % (str(name), str(url))) if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) > 1: print_results(sys.argv[1:]) else: get_results()