A python script to stick it to the man

howaboutno.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import sys
import urllib
import webbrowser


urljoin = None
try:
    # Python 2
    import urlparse
    urljoin = urlparse.urljoin
except ImportError:
    # Python 3
    urljoin = urllib.parse.urljoin
try:
    import bs4
except ImportError:
    print('Please install Beautiful soup by running `pip install beautifulsoup`')
    sys.exit(1)


def replace_resource(source, tag, getter, **attrs):
    for tag in source.find_all(tag, **attrs):
        attribute = tag.get(getter, None)
        if attribute is None:
            continue
        abs_path = urljoin(sys.argv[1], tag[getter])
        local_path = '/tmp/' + abs_path.split('/')[-1]
        tag[getter] = 'file://' + local_path 
        f = open(local_path, 'w')
        f.write(urllib.urlopen(abs_path).read())
        f.close()
    return source


source = bs4.BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read(), 'html.parser')
source = replace_resource(source, 'link', 'href', rel='stylesheet')
source = replace_resource(source, 'img', 'src')

f = open('/tmp/fuckoffwithyourads.html', 'w')
f.write(str(source))
f.close()

webbrowser.open_new_tab('file:///tmp/fuckoffwithyourads.html')