a very basic command line frontend to the rbo package search

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright (c) 2009 Mark Trompell <[email protected]>
# This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
# A copy is available at http://www.rpath.com/permanent/mit-license.html
#
# a very basic command line frontend to the rbo package search
import urllib2,sys,string,os
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class rboparser(HTMLParser):
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if (tag == "td"):
            for att in attrs:
                if (att[1] == 'mainSearchItemDesc'):
                    print (str(self.rawdata.split('\n')[self.getpos()[0]]).strip())

if (len(sys.argv) != 2):
    usage = "usage: "+ sys.argv[0] + " <search string>"
    print (usage)
    exit ()
searchstring = "http://www.rpath.org/search?type=Packages&search=" + sys.argv[1] + ";limit=100000"
searchstring = searchstring.replace(' ','+')


if os.getenv("HTTP_PROXY"):
	proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" :os.getenv("HTTP_PROXY")})
	opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
	urllib2.install_opener(opener)
	
f = urllib2.urlopen(searchstring)
rbo = rboparser()
rbo.feed(f.read())