So, I wrote this python script that allows me to look for the stuff I am interested in buying. It works by having a file of regular expressions that I use to search the item descriptions when something goes on sale at bonktown. If the item matches something I'm looking for then I get a Growl notification. If not then I don't hear about it.
Here's the code:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
import re
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import Growl
name = "MyBonk" # was BonkMe
notifications = ["search_hit"]
notifier = Growl.GrowlNotifier(name,notifications)
notifier.register()
# Read file of search Terms
myTerms = open("/Users/bmiller/lib/bonk_items.txt").readlines()
# Get the latest page
bt = urllib.urlopen("http://www.bonktown.com")
doc = BeautifulSoup(bt.read())
itemlist = doc.findAll(id=re.compile("item_title"))
price = doc.findAll(id=re.compile("price"))
desc = doc.findAll(id=re.compile("item_description"))
for term in myTerms:
for i in range(len(itemlist)):
if itemlist[i] and re.search(term[:-1],itemlist[i].contents[0],re.IGNORECASE):
notifier.notify("search_hit",
itemlist[i].contents[0],
desc[i].contents[7].contents[0],
sticky=False)
This script makes use of several modules:
- Growl
- BeautifulSoup
- urllib
- re
I would have liked to use one of the standard library html/xml parsers, but I could not find one that was as convenient or easy to use as BeautifulSoup. If you can tell me how to parse messy html with one of the standard library xml modules please let me know.
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