#!/usr/bin/env python3 ############################################################################### # # This script scrapes the Covid-19 Wikiproject # # It (1) hits the fcgi to find out how many rounds. Then (2) hit the fcgi # that many rounds, cooking that information down to just a list of article names and # then (3) saves it out. # # At time of writing: # the fCGI returns only 1000 max, no matter what you put in the limit. page 1 looks like this.... # https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=COVID-19&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=1000&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality # # and page 2 looks like this # https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?namespace=&run=yes&projecta=COVID-19&score=&sorta=Importance&importance=&limit=1000&pagename=&quality=&sortb=Quality&&offset=1001 # ############################################################################### import argparse import subprocess import requests import datetime import logging import re import math from bs4 import BeautifulSoup def parse_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Get a list of pages tracked by the COVID-19 Wikiproject.') parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_file', help='Where to save output', default="wikipedia/resources/enwp_wikiproject_covid19_articles.txt", type=str) parser.add_argument('-L', '--logging_level', help='Logging level. Options are debug, info, warning, error, critical. Default: info.', default='info'), parser.add_argument('-W', '--logging_destination', help='Logging destination file. (default: standard error)', type=str), args = parser.parse_args() return(args) def main(): args = parse_args() outputFile = args.output_file #handle -L loglevel_mapping = { 'debug' : logging.DEBUG, 'info' : logging.INFO, 'warning' : logging.WARNING, 'error' : logging.ERROR, 'critical' : logging.CRITICAL } if args.logging_level in loglevel_mapping: loglevel = loglevel_mapping[args.logging_level] else: print("Choose a valid log level: debug, info, warning, error, or critical") exit #handle -W if args.logging_destination: logging.basicConfig(filename=args.logging_destination, filemode='a', level=loglevel) else: logging.basicConfig(level=loglevel) export_git_hash = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD']).decode().strip() export_git_short_hash = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD']).decode().strip() export_time = str(datetime.datetime.now()) logging.info(f"Starting at {export_time} and destructively outputting article list to {outputFile}.") logging.info(f"Last commit: {export_git_hash}") #1 How many hits to the fcgi? session = requests.Session() originalURL = "https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=COVID-19&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=1000&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality" headURL = "https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=COVID-19&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=1000&offset=" tailURL = "&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality" #head + offset + tail = original when offset = 1 # find out how many results we have response = session.get(originalURL) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html.parser") nodes = soup.find_all('div', class_="navbox") rx = re.compile("Total results:\D*(\d+)") m = rx.search(nodes[0].get_text()) #print(nodes[0].get_text()) numResults = int(m.group(1)) logging.debug(f"fcgi returned {numResults}") rounds = math.ceil(numResults/1000) #2 Fetch and parse down to just the article names articleNames = [] for i in range(1, rounds+1): offset = (i - 1)*1000 + 1 #offset is 1, then 1001, then 2001 url = f"{headURL}{offset}{tailURL}" response = session.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html.parser") #make fresh soup article_rows = soup.find_all('tr', class_="list-odd") #just the odds first for row in article_rows: a = row.find('a') articleNames.append(a.get_text()) article_rows = soup.find_all('tr', class_="list-even") #now the events for row in article_rows: a = row.find('a') articleNames.append(a.get_text()) #3 Saves the list to a file with open(outputFile, 'w') as f: f.write('\n'.join(articleNames)+'\n') logging.debug(f"Finished scrape and made a new article file at {datetime.datetime.now()}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()