import requests
from datetime import date
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from config import config
def check_error(func, name):
try:
return func()
except:
return "Error getting %s" % name
def get_on_this_day():
old_news = check_error(get_old_news, "old news")
peanuts = check_error(get_peanuts, "peanuts")
calvin_and_hobbes = check_error(get_calvin_and_hobbes, "calvin and hobbes")
wikipedia = check_error(get_today_wikipedia, "wikipedia")
wikiquote = check_error(get_today_wikiquote, "wikiquote")
thoreau = check_error(get_thoreau, "thoreau")
return "
On this day
%s
" % (old_news, peanuts, calvin_and_hobbes, wikipedia, wikiquote, thoreau)
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 += '\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 '' % (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 '%s
' % 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 '' % (comic_src)
else:
return ""
def get_peanuts():
print("getting peanuts")
comic_date = date.today().strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
full_url = "https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/%s" % comic_date
r = requests.get(full_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")
comic_src = soup.select(".item-comic-image")[0].img["src"]
return '' % (comic_src)
def get_thoreau():
print("getting thoreau")
year_int = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) - 183
year = str(year_int)
year_stop = str(year_int+1)
month_day1 = date.today().strftime("_%b %d._")
month_day2 = date.today().strftime("_%b. %d._")
with open("journal1.txt") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
# Find lines that the year lies on
i= 0
year_start_idx = -1
for i in range(len(lines)):
if lines[i].startswith(year):
year_start_idx = i+1
break
year_stop_idx = -1
for i in range(year_start_idx, len(lines)):
if lines[i].startswith(year_stop):
year_stop_idx = i - 2
break
entry_start_idx = -1
# Find the lines inside the year that the date lies on
i = year_start_idx
while i < year_stop_idx:
if lines[i].startswith(month_day1) or lines[i].startswith(month_day2):
entry_start_idx = i - 2
i += 1
break
i += 1
entry_end_idx = -1
while i < year_stop_idx:
if lines[i].startswith("_"):
entry_end_idx = i - 2
break
i += 1
# If found date, join the strings
if entry_start_idx != -1 and entry_end_idx != -1:
return "".join(lines[entry_start_idx:entry_end_idx])
return "No Thoreau entry on " + month_day1 + year