Initial Creation

README

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+This is a simple Python application to pull the newspaper jpg imges from newseum.org
+
+Edit the script to set the id's of the papers to pull.
+
+Images are stored in the current directory.
+

newseum-pages.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+    Quick Newseum Frontpage Grabber script
+    Copyright 2009 by Brian C. Lane
+    Imp Software
+    All Rights Reserved
+
+    Modify CITIES list below to add the city designators (as seen in the
+    URLS at http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp)
+"""
+import urllib2
+import re
+import os
+import urlparse
+
+# Add more cities here
+CITIES = [ "AL_AS", "AL_MA",   ]
+
+NEWSEUM_URL="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=%s"
+NEWSEUM_IMG="http://www.newseum.org"
+
+def fetchNewseumImage(city):
+    """
+    Fetch the image for a city
+    """
+    print "Parsing the page for %s" % (city)
+    page = urllib2.urlopen(NEWSEUM_URL % city).read()
+
+    # Quick and dirty grep for the image name
+    match = re.search('<img class="tfp_lrg_img" src="(.*)" alt=', page)
+    if match:
+        img_url = NEWSEUM_IMG + os.path.abspath(match.group(1))
+        print "Saving the image for %s" % (city)
+        image = urllib2.urlopen(img_url).read()
+        open(os.path.basename(match.group(1)), "wb").write(image)
+
+
+def main():
+    """
+    Main code goes here
+    """
+    for city in CITIES:
+        fetchNewseumImage(city)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+
+