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Diffstat (limited to 'unbiasedFunctions.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | unbiasedFunctions.py | 61 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/unbiasedFunctions.py b/unbiasedFunctions.py index ef0265f..cab7681 100644 --- a/unbiasedFunctions.py +++ b/unbiasedFunctions.py @@ -2,16 +2,17 @@ from unbiasedObjects import * import os
import random
import time
+import re
#take in a url and delimiters, return twitter card
def buildArticle(url, sourceName):#, titleDelStart, titleDelEnd, imgDelStart, imgDelEnd):
- '''#PRINT DEBUGGING
- print(sourceName)
- print(url)
- print()
- '''
+ debugging=False
+ if debugging:
+ print(sourceName)
+ print(url)
+ print()
#download url
os.system('wget -q -O scratch/temp_article.html --no-check-certificate '+url)
@@ -47,34 +48,60 @@ def buildArticle(url, sourceName):#, titleDelStart, titleDelEnd, imgDelStart, im img=img[:-1].strip()
img=img[:-1]
+ if debugging:
+ print(img)
+
title=content.split('og:title" content=')[1][1:].split('>')[0]
if title[-1]=='/':
title=title[:-1].strip()
title=title[:-1]
+ if debugging:
+ print(title)
+
+
author=''
- if sourceName!='The Blaze':
- authorTags=['article:author', 'dc.creator']
+ if sourceName=='The Blaze':
+ if 'class="article-author">' in content:
+ author=content.split('class="article-author">')[1].split('<')[0]
+ elif 'class="article-author" href="' in content:
+ author=content.split('class="article-author" href="')[1]
+ author=author.split('>')[1].split('<')[0].strip()
+ else:
+ authorTags=['article:author', 'dc.creator', 'property="author']
for tag in authorTags:
if tag in content:
author=content.split(tag+'" content=')[1][1:].split('>')[0]
author=author[:-1]
+ #trim an extra quotation mark for The Hill
+ if sourceName=='The Hill':
+ author=author.split('"', 1)[0]
break
- #handle The Blaze
+
+ if debugging:
+ print(author)
+
+
+ if 'og:description' in content:
+ description=content.split('og:description" content=')[1][1:].split('>')[0]
+ if description[-1]=='/':
+ description=description[:-1].strip()
+ description=description[:-1]
else:
- if 'class="article-author">' in content:
- author=content.split('class="article-author">')[1].split('<')[0]
- elif 'class="article-author" href="' in content:
- author=content.split('class="article-author" href="')[1]
- author=author.split('>')[1].split('<')[0].strip()
+ if sourceName=='The Hill':
+ description=content.split('div class="field-items"')[-1]
+ description=re.sub('<[^<]+?>', '', description)
+ description=description[1:200]
+ else:
+ print("SHOULDN'T GET HERE")
- description=content.split('og:description" content=')[1][1:].split('>')[0]
- if description[-1]=='/':
- description=description[:-1].strip()
- description=description[:-1]
#strip out self-references
description=description.replace(sourceName, 'our')
+ if debugging:
+ print(description)
+
+
a=Article(title, url, img, description, sourceName, author)
return a
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