kuow-mastodon-bot/kuow_fetcher.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from mastodon import Mastodon

kuow_base_url = "https://www.kuow.org"
url = (
    kuow_base_url
    + "/fragments?name=story_grid&source=homepage&view_id=1&page=1&per_page=12"
)
log_file = "kuow_bot_logfile.txt"
mastodon = Mastodon(access_token="kuow_bot_mastodon.secret")

r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "html.parser")
articles = soup.find_all("span", class_="txt")
# Reverse articles, so that if multiple new ones have been found, they'll be posted in order of when published
articles.reverse()

for article in articles:
    article_link = article.find("a").attrs["href"]

    is_new_article = True
    with open(log_file, "r") as fp:
        lines = fp.readlines()
        for row in lines:
            if row == article_link + "\n":
                print("Article " + article_link + " has already been seen")
                is_new_article = False

    if is_new_article:
        print(article_link + " has not been seen, posting")
        article_lookup = requests.get(kuow_base_url + article_link)
        article_soup = BeautifulSoup(article_lookup.content, "html.parser")
        try:
            article_description = (
                (article_soup.find("meta", attrs={"property": "description"}))
                .attrs["content"]
                .strip()
            )
            mastodon.status_post(
                status=article_description
                + "\n"
                + kuow_base_url
                + article_link
                + "\n#KUOW #News",
                visibility="unlisted",
            )
            with open(log_file, "a") as fp:
                fp.write(article_link + "\n")
        except:
            print("Could not load a description/post this article")