#!/usr/bin/python import re from bs4 import BeautifulSoup def match(url): ## e.g. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4109686/3/Taking-Sights return re.match(r'^https?://www\.fanfiction\.net/s/\d+/?.*', url) def extract(url, fetch): page = fetch(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html5lib') content = soup.find(id="content_wrapper_inner") if not content: return story = {} chapters = [] metadata = content.find(id='profile_top') story['title'] = str(metadata.find('b', class_="xcontrast_txt").string) story['author'] = str(metadata.find('a', class_="xcontrast_txt").string) chapter_select = content.find(id="chap_select") if chapter_select: base_url = re.search(r'(https?://[^/]+/s/\d+/?)', url) if not base_url: return base_url = base_url.group(0) # beautiful soup doesn't handle ffn's unclosed option tags at all well here options = re.findall(r']*>([^<]+)', str(chapter_select)) for option in options: chapters.append(_extract_chapter(base_url + option[0], option[1], fetch)) else: chapters.append(_extract_chapter(url, story['title'], fetch)) story['chapters'] = chapters return story def _extract_chapter(url, title, fetch): print("Extracting chapter from", url) page = fetch(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html5lib') content = soup.find(id="content_wrapper_inner") if not content: return text = content.find(id="storytext") # clean up some invalid xhtml attributes # TODO: be more selective about this somehow try: for tag in text.find_all(True): tag.attrs = None except Exception as e: print("Trouble cleaning attributes", e) return (title, text.prettify())