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defmodule Scraper do | |
def scrape(subreddit) do | |
%{body: body} = HTTPoison.get!("https://www.reddit.com/r/#{subreddit}/.rss") | |
{:ok, feed, ""} = FeederEx.parse(body) | |
fetch_content(get_links(feed)) | |
end | |
defp get_links(%FeederEx.Feed{entries: entries}) do | |
Enum.map(entries, fn (%FeederEx.Entry{link: link}) -> | |
link | |
end) | |
end | |
defp fetch_content(links) when is_list(links) do | |
links | |
|> Enum.reduce("", fn (link, acc) -> | |
id = get_id_from_link(link) | |
case acc do | |
"" -> id | |
_ -> "#{acc},#{id}" | |
end | |
end) | |
|> fetch_content | |
end | |
defp fetch_content(ids) do | |
HTTPoison.get!( | |
"http://www.reddit.com/by_id/#{ids}.json", | |
[{"User-Agent", "haikubot 0.1"}]) | |
|> Map.get(:body) | |
|> parse_content | |
end | |
defp parse_content(content) do | |
%{"data" => %{"children" => children}} = Poison.decode!(content) | |
Enum.map(children, fn %{"data" => %{"selftext_html" => text}} -> | |
Floki.parse(text) |> Floki.text | |
end) | |
end | |
defp get_id_from_link(link) do | |
"t3_" <> Enum.at(String.split(link, "/", trim: true), 5) | |
end | |
end |
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