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yahooBot/webscraper/main.py

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from requests import get
from requests.exceptions import RequestException
from contextlib import closing
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import logging
import json
import time
#universal vars
# debug level
frm = "%(asctime)-15s %(message)s"
lvl = logging.WARNING
#logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
#logging.basicConfig(level=lvl,format=frm,file="log")
def getReq(url):
try:
with closing(get(url, stream=True)) as resp:
if checkResponse(resp):
return resp.content
else:
return None
except RequestException as e:
logging.warning('error during requests to {} : {}'.format(url, str(e)))
return None
def checkResponse(resp):
return (resp.status_code == 200
and resp.headers['Content-Type'].lower() is not None
and resp.headers['Content-Type'].lower().find('html') > -1)
raw_html = getReq("https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index")
html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, "html.parser")
items = []
for li in html.find_all('li', class_="ya-discover-tile ya-discover-tile-qn Bfc P-14 Bdbx-1g Bgc-w"):
arr = {}
arr['title'] = ' '.join(li.find('a', class_="title").text.split())
arr['category'] = ' '.join(li.find("div", class_="Clr-888 Fz-12 Lh-18").find('a', class_="Clr-b").text.split())
arr['description'] = ' '.join(li.find('div', class_="fullDesc Mah-130 Ovy-s Fz-13 Lh-18 Ol-n D-n").text.replace('\n', '').split())
if arr['description'].find('Best answer:') > -1:
arr['description'] = None
items.append(arr)
with open('data/'+time.asctime().replace(":","-").replace(" ", "_"), "w") as f:
f.write(json.dumps(items))