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authorMark Powers <markppowers0@gmail.com>2020-09-26 19:00:25 -0500
committerMark Powers <markppowers0@gmail.com>2020-09-26 19:00:25 -0500
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tree21842d11aba325e4bd6aaa91fbcc1db816ce1a9e /on_this_day.py
parentc589248cd48214096bdfcd2c637b23c38f79699f (diff)
Add wikipedia, wikiquote, and calvin and hobbes links
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+import requests
+
+from datetime import date
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+from config import config
+
+def get_on_this_day():
+ return "<h1>On this day</h1>%s%s%s%s" % (get_old_news(), get_calvin_and_hobbes(), get_today_wikipedia(), get_today_wikiquote())
+
+def get_old_news():
+ print("getting old news")
+ year = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) - 100
+ century_ago = str(year) + date.today().strftime("-%m-%d")
+ news_text = ""
+ urls = config["news"]["urls"].split(",")
+ names = config["news"]["names"].split(",")
+ for i in range(len(urls)):
+ full_url = urls[i] % century_ago
+ name = names[i]
+ if requests.get(full_url).status_code != 404:
+ news_text += '<div><a href="%s">%s %s</a></div>\n' % (full_url, name, century_ago)
+ return news_text
+
+def get_today_wikipedia():
+ print("getting today's wikipedia")
+ full_url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s" % date.today().strftime("%B_%d")
+ return '<div><a href="%s">Today\'s Wikipedia</a></div>' % (full_url)
+
+def get_today_wikiquote():
+ print("getting today's wikiquote")
+ full_url = "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%s" % date.today().strftime("%B_%d")
+ r = requests.get(full_url)
+ soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")
+ table = str(soup.find(text="2020").parent.parent.next_sibling.next_sibling)
+ table = table.replace('href="/', 'href="https://en.wikiquote.org/')
+ return '<div style="border: 1px solid black">%s</div>' % table
+
+def get_calvin_and_hobbes():
+ print("getting calvin and hobbes")
+ year = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) % 9 + 1986
+ comic_date = str(year) + date.today().strftime("/%m/%d")
+ full_url = "https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/%s" % comic_date
+ r = requests.get(full_url)
+ soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")
+ if not "Today on" in str(soup.title): # gocomics gives you today if 404
+ comic_src = soup.select(".item-comic-image")[0].img["src"]
+ return '<div><a href="%s">Calvin and Hobbes</a></div>' % (comic_src)
+ else:
+ return ""
+