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Merge a class of geeksforgeeks.com posts into one html, then convert into PDF
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import sys | |
import requests | |
from xhtml2pdf import pisa | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
def convertHtmlToPdf(sourceHtml, outputFilename): | |
print "generate pdf to " + outputFilename | |
resultFile = open(outputFilename, "w+b") | |
pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF( | |
sourceHtml, | |
dest=resultFile, | |
encoding='utf-8') | |
resultFile.close() | |
return pisaStatus.err | |
def fetchPosts(url): | |
posts = [] | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content) | |
for post in soup.find_all(class_='post-title'): | |
posts.append((post.a['href'], post.a['title'])) | |
for page in soup.find_all(class_='page larger'): | |
psoup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(page['href']).content) | |
for post in psoup.find_all(class_='post-title'): | |
posts.append((post.a['href'], post.a['title'])) | |
return posts | |
def postsToPdf(seed_url): | |
name = seed_url.split('/')[-2] | |
html = "<h1>" + seed_url + "</h1><br>" | |
posts = fetchPosts(seed_url) | |
print "total post number: " + str(len(posts)) | |
for post in posts: | |
html += " <br> <a href=\"" + post[0] + "\" target=\"_blank\">" + post[1] + "</a>" | |
for post in posts: | |
print "fetch post: " + post[0] | |
try: | |
content = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(post[0]).content) | |
html += " <br> " + content.find(class_='post-info').prettify() | |
except: | |
print "Skip Post: " + post[0] + " " + post[1] | |
f = open(name + ".html", "w") | |
f.write(html.encode('utf-8')) | |
f.close() | |
convertHtmlToPdf(html, name + ".pdf") | |
if __name__=="__main__": | |
seed_urls = [ | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/dynamic-programming/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/advance-data-structures/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/Greedy-Algorithm/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/backtracking/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/pattern-searching/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/divide-and-conquer/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/MathematicalAlgo/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/recursion/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tag/geometric-algorithms/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/graph/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/tree/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/multiple-choice-question/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/bit-magic/', | |
'http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/category/c-strings/', | |
] | |
if len(sys.argv) > 1: | |
seed_urls = [sys.argv[1]] | |
for seed_url in seed_urls: | |
postsToPdf(seed_url) |
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