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| * [[python]] | | * [[python]] |
| * [[html5lib]] | | * [[html5lib]] |
| * [https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html ElementTree] part of the standard python library | | * [[ElementTree]] part of the standard python library |
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| == Scraping dmoz.org == | | == Examples == |
| | | * [[Scraping the Open Directory with Python]] |
| === Example 1: Pulling the URLs + textual descriptions from a single page ===
| | * [[Wikiwalker: Crawling wikipedia pages for images]] |
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| Consider a single page on dmoz, such as:
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| http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/
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| If you look into the source, we can see the structure around the URLs listed at the bottom of the page:
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| <source lang="html4strict">
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| <ul style="margin-left:0;" class="directory-url">
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| <li>
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| <a class="listinglink" href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/">Absolute Astronomy</a>
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| - Facts and statistical information about planets, moons, constellations, stars, galaxies, and Messier objects.
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| <div class="flag"><a href="/public/flag?cat=Science%2FAstronomy&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.absoluteastronomy.com%2F"><img title="report an issue with this listing" alt="[!]" src="/img/flag.png"></a></div>
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| </li>
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| </source>
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| <source lang="python">
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| url = sys.argv[1]
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| f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
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| src = f.read()
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| tree = html5lib.parse(src, namespaceHTMLElements=False)
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| for div in tree.findall(".//ul"):
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| if "directory-url" in div.get("class", "").split():
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| for li in div.findall("li"):
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| for a in li.findall("a"):
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| if "listinglink" in a.get("class", "").split():
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| linkurl = a.get("href")
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| linkdescription = a.tail.strip().strip("-").strip()
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| print (linkurl)
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| print ("\t"+linkdescription.encode("utf-8"))
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| print ()</source>
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| === Example 2: Digging into sub / related categories ===
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| The pages also contain links to sub- and related categories, if we want to follow these as well, we can...
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| <source lang="html4strict">
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| <div class="dir-1 borN">
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| <span><img style="height:2px;float:left;width:100%" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/os/dmoz/img/dividerN.gif"></span>
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| <ul class="directory dir-col">
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| <li class="">
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| <a href="/Science/Anomalies_and_Alternative_Science/Astronomy%2C_Alternative/">Alternative</a>@
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| <em>(72)</em>
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| </li>
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| </source>
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| <source lang="python">
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| url = sys.argv[1]
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| todo = [url]
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| seen = set()
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| while len(todo) > 0:
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| url, todo = todo[0], todo[1:]
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| if url not in seen:
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| f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
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| print("VISITING", url)
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| seen.add(url)
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| src = f.read()
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| tree = html5lib.parse(src, namespaceHTMLElements=False)
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| # Extract links
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| print ("LINKS")
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| for div in tree.findall(".//ul"):
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| if "directory-url" in div.get("class", "").split():
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| for li in div.findall("li"):
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| for a in li.findall("a"):
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| if "listinglink" in a.get("class", "").split():
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| linkurl = a.get("href")
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| linkdescription = a.tail.strip().strip("-").strip()
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| print (linkurl)
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| print ("\t"+linkdescription.encode("utf-8"))
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| # Follow the related category pages
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| print ("RELATED")
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| for div in tree.findall(".//ul"):
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| if "directory" in div.get("class", "").split():
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| for li in div.findall("li"):
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| for a in li.findall("a"):
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| suburl = a.get("href")
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| suburl = urljoin(url, suburl)
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| description = a.text.strip()
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| print (suburl)
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| print ("\t"+description.encode("utf-8"))
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| if suburl not in seen:
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| todo.append(suburl)
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| print ()
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| </source>
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