Simple script to strip out the administrator names and school names of contacts in a certain online directory.

extract-names-and-schools

# A simple program to extract the administrator name, and school name from
# the html files of an online directory then output a file each for 
# the lists of names and schools using the json.dumps() approach to generate
# simple json output
def extractor(infile, outfile1, outfile2):
  file = open(infile, 'r')
	soup = BeautifulSoup(file)
	commonsoup = soup('strong')
	names = []
	schools = []

	# administrator name extraction
	for i in commonsoup:
		for j in i:
			if j.string != None:
				if commonsoup.index(i)%2 != 0:
					if j != '\n':
						names.append(j.string.encode('utf-8').strip())

	# school name extraction
	for i in commonsoup:
        if i.string != None:
            if i.string != "More":
                schools.append(i.string.encode('utf-8').strip())

	with open(outfile1, 'w') as file:
		file.write(json.dumps(names))

	with open(outfile2, 'w') as file:
		file.write(json.dumps(schools))

def main(filelist):
	for i in filelist:
		extractor(i, "p"+str(filelist.index(i)+1)+"-names.txt", "p"+str(filelist.index(i)+1)+"-schools.txt")