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scraper.py
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import scraperwiki
import BeautifulSoup
import re
from datetime import datetime
from scraperwiki import datastore
# Hello World Example #
#scrape page
html = scraperwiki.scrape('http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/LivingintheUK/DG_073741')
page = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html)
#find rows
for table in page.findAll('table', { 'class':'markuptable' } ):
rows = table.findAll('tr')[:-2]
country = rows[0].th.string
years = [cell.string.strip()
for cell in rows[0].findAll('th')[1:]]
# Confirm correct parsing
print years
for row in rows[1:]:
holiday_name = row.td.string
for cell, year in zip(row.findAll('td')[1:], years):
#save to datastore
cell = re.sub('(\d+)',r'\1 ', cell.string.strip().replace('*','').strip())
if cell == '-':
continue
date_str = cell + " " + year
# Remove non-breaking spaces (\xa0), and join up with single spaces
date_str = ' '.join(date_str.split())
print repr(date_str)
#convert date to date object
date_of_holiday = datetime.strptime(date_str, "%d %B %Y")
print date_of_holiday
#save to datastore
data = { 'country' : country, 'date' : date_of_holiday, 'holiday_name' : holiday_name}
datastore.save(unique_keys=['country','date'], data=data, date=date_of_holiday)