#!/usr/bin/env python # update/isil.py - script to donwload ISIL agencies # # Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Arthur de Jong # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA """This script downloads a web page from the ISIL Registration Authority and screen-scrapes the national and non-national ISIL agencies and code prefixes.""" import re import urllib import BeautifulSoup spaces_re = re.compile(r'\s+', re.UNICODE) # the web page that holds information on the ISIL authorities download_url = 'http://biblstandard.dk/isil/' def clean(s): """Clean up the string removing unneeded stuff from it.""" return spaces_re.sub(' ', s.replace(u'\u0096', '')).strip().encode('utf-8') def parse(f): """Parse the specified file.""" print('# generated from ISIL Registration Authority, downloaded from') print('# %s' % download_url) soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(f, convertEntities='html') # find all table rows for tr in soup.findAll('tr'): # find the rows with four columns of text tds = tr.findAll('td', attrs={'class': 'text'}, recursive=False) if len(tds) == 4: props = {} cc = clean(tds[0].string) if tds[1].string: props['country'] = clean(tds[1].contents[0]) ra_a = tds[2].find('a') if ra_a: props['ra'] = clean(ra_a.string) props['ra_url'] = clean(ra_a['href']) elif tds[2].string: props['ra'] = clean(tds[2].string) # we could also get the search urls from tds[3].findAll('a') print( '%s$ %s' % ( cc, ' '.join( ['%s="%s"' % (x, y) for x, y in props.iteritems()]))) if __name__ == '__main__': # f = open('isil.html', 'r') f = urllib.urlopen(download_url) parse(f)