__author__ = 'Helium' # Here, we are importing the auxiliary functions to clean or convert data from Forums.Utilities.utilities import * from datetime import date from datetime import timedelta import re # Here, we are importing BeautifulSoup to search through the HTML tree from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, ResultSet, Tag # This is the method to parse the Description Pages (one page to each topic in the Listing Pages) def procrax_description_parser(soup: Tag): # Fields to be parsed topic = "-1" # topic name user = [] # all users of each post addDate = [] # all dated of each post feedback = [] # all feedbacks of each vendor (this was found in just one Forum and with a number format) status = [] # all user's authority in each post such as (adm, member, dangerous) reputation = [] # all user's karma in each post (usually found as a number) sign = [] # all user's signature in each post (usually a standard message after the content of the post) post = [] # all messages of each post interest = [] # all user's interest in each post # Finding the topic (should be just one coming from the Listing Page) li = soup.find("h1", {"class": "p-title-value"}) topic = li.text thread: ResultSet[Tag] = soup.find("div", {"class": "block-body js-replyNewMessageContainer"}).find_all("article", {"data-author": True}) for ipost in thread: username = ipost.find("h4", {"class": "message-name"}).text user.append(cleanString(username.strip())) date_posted = ipost.find("ul", {"class": "message-attribution-main listInline"}).find("time").get("datetime") datetime_obj = datetime.strptime(date_posted, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z") addDate.append(datetime_obj) feedback.append("-1") user_status = ipost.find("h5", {"class": "userTitle message-userTitle"}).text status.append(cleanString(user_status.strip())) user_lvl = ipost.find("div", {"class": "afAwardLevel"}).text reputation.append(cleanString(user_lvl.strip())) sign.append("-1") user_post = ipost.find("article", {"class": "message-body js-selectToQuote"}).text post.append(cleanString(user_post.strip())) interest.append("-1") # Populate the final variable (this should be a list with all fields scraped) row = (topic, user, status, reputation, interest, sign, post, feedback, addDate) # Sending the results return row # This is the method to parse the Listing Pages (one page with many posts) def procrax_listing_parser(soup: Tag): board = "-1" # board name (the previous level of the topic in the Forum categorization tree. # For instance: Security/Malware/Tools to hack Facebook. The board here should be Malware) nm = 0 # this variable should receive the number of topics topic = [] # all topics author = [] # all authors of each topic views = [] # number of views of each topic posts = [] # number of posts of each topic addDate = [] # when the topic was created (difficult to find) href = [] # this variable should receive all cleaned urls (we will use this to do the marge between # Listing and Description pages) # Finding the board (should be just one) li = soup.find("h1", {"class": "p-title-value"}) board = cleanString(li.text.strip()) threads_list: ResultSet[Tag] = soup.find("div", {"class": "structItemContainer-group js-threadList"}).find_all("div", {"data-author": True}) nm = len(threads_list) for thread in threads_list: thread_title = thread.find("div", {"class": "structItem-title"}).text topic.append(cleanString(thread_title.strip())) thread_author = thread.get("data-author") author.append(cleanString(thread_author)) thread_views = thread.find("dl", {"class": "pairs pairs--justified structItem-minor"}).find('dd').text views.append(cleanString(thread_views.strip())) thread_replies = thread.find("dl", {"class": "pairs pairs--justified"}).find('dd').text # All threads contain one topic post and reply posts thread_total_posts = str(1 + int(thread_replies)) posts.append(thread_total_posts) thread_date = thread.find("li", {"class": "structItem-startDate"}).find("time").get("datetime") datetime_obj = datetime.strptime(thread_date, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z") addDate.append(datetime_obj) thread_link: str = thread.find("div", {"class": "structItem-title"}).find('a').get('href') href.append(thread_link) return organizeTopics( forum="Procrax", nm=nm, board=board, author=author, topic=topic, views=views, posts=posts, addDate=addDate, href=href ) def procrax_links_parser(soup): # Returning all links that should be visited by the Crawler href = [] listing = soup.find_all('div', {"class": "structItem-title"}) for a in listing: link = a.find('a', {'class': ''}).get('href') href.append(link) return href