# A simple tool to scrape written scripts from the forum, down to a folder
import requests
import lxml.html
import os
start = 0
incr = 15
# Update these variables, or even better convert to Arguments
url ='http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=19036&start=%s'
txt = ''
folder = 'KLD'
cards = 0
def normalize_name(name):
return name.lower().replace(' ', '_').replace("'", '').replace(',', '').replace(u'\xc6', 'AE')
#allCards = file(os.path.join(folder, 'allcards.txt'), 'w')
condition = True
try:
os.mkdir(folder)
except:
print folder, "already exists"
while condition:
r = requests.get(url % start)
condition = txt != r.text
if not condition:
break
txt = r.text
tree = lxml.html.fromstring(txt)
elements = tree.findall('.//code')
for e in elements:
if not e.text.startswith('Name:'):
continue
script = lxml.html.tostring(e)[6:-7].replace('', '')
#allCards.write(script.replace('
', '\n'))
#allCards.write('\n\n')
while True:
idx = script.find('', idx)
#print script[idx:backIdx]
script = script[0:idx] + script[backIdx+1:]
#script = script.replace('<','<').replace('>', '>')
lines = script.split('
')
name = ''
split = False
for line in lines:
if line.startswith("Name:"):
if split:
name += ' '
if not name or split:
name += line[5:].rstrip()
elif line.startswith("AlternateMode") and 'Split' in line:
split = True
name = normalize_name(name)
path = os.path.join(folder, name+'.txt')
i = 1
while os.path.isfile(path):
path = os.path.join(folder, '%s%s.txt' % (name, i))
i += 1
try:
with open(path, 'w') as f:
for line in lines:
f.write("%s\n" % line)
except:
print path, " Failed..."
continue
cards += 1
start += incr
print ("About to loop... %s" % start)
raw_input("Press Enter to continue...")
print ("Done!")
raw_input("Press Enter to continue...")