turns out fedibooks is even buggier than i thought, and i already thought it was pretty shit

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Lynne Megido 2020-05-27 22:27:20 +10:00
parent 0a4ddb7687
commit 0997de535b
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2 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -21,12 +21,10 @@ def extract_post(post):
post = html.unescape(post) # convert HTML escape codes to text
soup = BeautifulSoup(post, "html.parser")
for lb in soup.select("br"): # replace <br> with linebreak
lb.insert_after("\n")
lb.decompose()
lb.replace_with("\n")
for p in soup.select("p"): # ditto for <p>
p.insert_after("\n")
p.unwrap()
p.replace_with("\n")
for ht in soup.select("a.hashtag"): # convert hashtags from links to text
ht.unwrap()
@ -34,8 +32,7 @@ def extract_post(post):
for link in soup.select("a"): #ocnvert <a href='https://example.com>example.com</a> to just https://example.com
if 'href' in link:
# apparently not all a tags have a href, which is understandable if you're doing normal web stuff, but on a social media platform??
link.insert_after(link["href"])
link.decompose()
link.replace_with(link["href"])
text = soup.get_text()
text = re.sub(r"https://([^/]+)/(@[^\s]+)", r"\2@\1", text) # put mastodon-style mentions back in

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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def scrape_posts(account):
# here we go!
# warning: scraping posts from outbox.json is messy stuff
while not done and len(j['orderedItems']) > 0:
while not done and 'orderedItems' in j and len(j['orderedItems']) > 0:
for oi in j['orderedItems']:
if oi['type'] == "Create":
# this is a status/post/toot/florp/whatever