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A script to parse lawtechie's post history and show, for each story that is linked to in another story, which stories link to it. Used for collecting multiple parts together. Does not show story singletons. More parsing work to do in the future
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| from requests import get | |
| from json import load,dump,dumps | |
| from collections import defaultdict | |
| from markdown import markdown | |
| from lxml import etree | |
| from time import sleep | |
| html = False | |
| url = "https://www.reddit.com/search.json" | |
| query = {"q": "subreddit:talesfromtechsupport author:lawtechie", "sort": "new", "limit": "1000"} | |
| def get_results(): | |
| try: | |
| with open("lawtechie-search-20200609.json") as f: | |
| return load(f) | |
| except: | |
| print("getting results") | |
| data = get(url, params=query, headers={"User-Agent": "/u/lawtechie story directory by /u/suudo"}).json()["data"] | |
| results = data["children"] | |
| print("added {} results".format(data["dist"])) | |
| while data["after"] is not None: | |
| query["after"] = data["after"] | |
| print("getting after: {}".format(data["after"])) | |
| data = get(url, params=query, headers={"User-Agent": "/u/lawtechie story directory by /u/suudo"}).json()["data"] | |
| results += data["children"] | |
| print("added {} results".format(data["dist"])) | |
| sleep(1) | |
| with open("lawtechie-search-20200609.json", "w") as f: | |
| dump(results,f) | |
| return results | |
| def l(i, alt=None): | |
| global html | |
| if html: | |
| return "<a href='http://redd.it/{}'>{}</a>".format(i, alt or i) | |
| else: | |
| return "http://redd.it/" + i | |
| def parse_url(url): | |
| if "reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport" in url: | |
| return url.split("/comments/",1)[1].split("/",1)[0] | |
| elif "redd.it/" in url: | |
| return url.split("redd.it/",1)[1][:6] | |
| def main(html_param=False): | |
| global html | |
| html = html_param | |
| results = get_results() | |
| stories = {story["data"]["id"]: story["data"] for story in results} | |
| story_links = defaultdict(list) | |
| for story in results: | |
| story = story["data"] | |
| mkdn = "<body>" + markdown(story["selftext"]) + "</body>" | |
| doc = etree.fromstring(mkdn) | |
| for link in doc.xpath("//a"): | |
| dest_id = parse_url(link.get("href")) | |
| if not dest_id: | |
| continue | |
| dest_title = stories.get(dest_id, {}).get("title", "UNKNOWN") | |
| story_links[l(dest_id, alt=dest_title)].append(l(story["id"], alt=story["title"])) | |
| for s,links in story_links.items(): | |
| if html: | |
| print("<dt>\n {}\n</dt><dd><ul>\n{}\n</ul></dd>".format(s, "\n".join(" <li>{}</li>".format(link) for link in links)), end="") | |
| else: | |
| print("{}\n {}".format(s, "\n ".join(links))) | |
| if html: | |
| print() | |
| return 0 | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| from sys import exit, argv | |
| exit(main(html_param="--html" in argv)) |
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