#!/usr/bin/env python3 # # http://github.com/mitchweaver/bin # # get the genre of a given band from metal-archives # # Usage: ./genre 'darkthrone' # from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from bs4.element import Comment import urllib.request import sys def tag_visible(element): if element.parent.name in ['style', 'script', 'head', 'title', 'meta', '[document]']: return False if isinstance(element, Comment): return False return True def text_from_html(body): soup = BeautifulSoup(body, 'html.parser') texts = soup.findAll(text=True) visible_texts = filter(tag_visible, texts) lines = [] for line in visible_texts: lines.append(line) return lines # return " ".join(t.strip() for t in visible_texts) def parse(url): try: html = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() genre = [] found_count = 0 for line in text_from_html(html): if len(line.strip()) < 2: continue if 'Genre:' in line: genre.append(line) found_count = 1 elif found_count > 0: genre.append(line) found_count += 1 if found_count == 2: break print(genre[0] + ' ' + genre[1]) except: print("Can't find it?") def main(): parse(url = 'https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/' + sys.argv[1]) if __name__ == "__main__": main()