kuow-mastodon-bot/kuow_fetcher.py

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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")