config-sample.yml

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ languages:
   - en
   - es
 default_language: en
+exclude_tags: []

kuow_fetcher.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def detect_article_language(article_description: str) -> str:
     except AttributeError:
         return default_language.iso_code_639_1.name
 
+
 engine = create_engine("sqlite:///kuow.db")
 Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
 
@@ -130,18 +131,39 @@ with Session(engine) as session:
             except (NameError, TypeError):
                 print("Could not find or load IDs for this post")
 
+            tags: list[str] = []
             try:
-                tags = article_soup.find(
+                tags.extend(
+                    article_soup.find(
                         "script", {"class": "dfp_targeting", "data-key": "tags"}
                     )["data-value"].split("|")
+                )
             except (NameError, TypeError):
-                print("Could not find or load any tags for this article")
+                print("Could not find or load any tags from the 'tags' property")
-                tags = []
+
+            try:
+                tags.extend(
+                    article_soup.find(
+                        "script", {"class": "dfp_targeting", "data-key": "topics"}
+                    )["data-value"].split("|")
+                )
+            except (NameError, TypeError):
+                print("Could not find or load any tags from the 'tags' property")
+
+            # Remove duplicates
+            tags = list(set(tags))
 
             additional_tag_string = ""
             for tag in tags:
-                # TODO: Do a check for tags in the config file that we don't want to tag posts with
+                tag = tag.title().replace(" ", "").replace("&", "And")
-                additional_tag_string += " #{}".format(tag.title().replace(" ", ""))
+                if tag.casefold() in config["exclude_tags"]:
+                    print(
+                        "Tag {} was found in the article, but won't be included in the post".format(
+                            tag
+                        )
+                    )
+                else:
+                    additional_tag_string += " #{}".format(tag)
 
             try:
                 article_description = (