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Diffstat (limited to 'main.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | main.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -7,17 +7,22 @@ import requests import datetime import json +# Constant URL to Hacker News base_url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/" +# Calculate the date 10 years ago as %Y-%m%d year = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) - 10 today = str(year) + date.today().strftime("-%m-%d") +# Request the page r = requests.get('https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day='+today) +# Parse the html soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml") +# Get the post specified by the first argument items = soup.find_all("tr", "athing")[:3] - index = int(sys.argv[1]) item = items[index] - story = item.find("a", "storylink") + +# Parse the title and link from the post title = story.text link = story["href"] if "http" not in link: @@ -38,18 +43,19 @@ except: +# Find the comments link from the row comment_el = item.next_sibling comment_link = base_url + comment_el.find_all("a")[-1]["href"] if comment_link == link: comment_link = "" +# Format the final string toot_content = title + "\n" + link + "\n"+comment_link +# Connect to Mastodon and send a toot mastodon = Mastodon( access_token = '/home/mark/hndecade/hndecade_usercred.secret', api_base_url = 'https://botsin.space' ) -print(toot_content) -#mastodon.toot(toot_content) - +mastodon.toot(toot_content) |