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Adding scraper for Harrow.

The info url situation here is not really good enough. 
All we get is a page with the last 7 days apps on it with no info urls.
I'm using that page as the info url for the moment, but it will obviously
be no use after seven days...
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duncan.parkes 16 years ago
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trunk/python_scrapers/Harrow.py View File

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import urllib2
import urllib
import urlparse

import datetime, time
import cgi

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

from PlanningUtils import PlanningApplication, \
PlanningAuthorityResults, \
getPostcodeFromText

import re

location_re = re.compile("Location:")
date_received_re = re.compile("Date first received:")

date_format = "%d %b %Y"

class HarrowParser:
def __init__(self, *args):

self.authority_name = "London Borough of Harrow"
self.authority_short_name = "Harrow"

# This is a link to the last seven days applications
# The day, month, and year arguments will be ignored.
self.base_url = "http://www.harrow.gov.uk/www4/planning/dcweek1.asp"

self._results = PlanningAuthorityResults(self.authority_name, self.authority_short_name)


def getResultsByDayMonthYear(self, day, month, year):
# Now get the search page
response = urllib2.urlopen(self.base_url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())

# Each application contains the nav string "Application: "
nav_strings = soup.findAll(text="Application: ")

for nav_string in nav_strings:
application = PlanningApplication()

application.council_reference = nav_string.findPrevious("tr").findAll("td", limit=2)[1].string.strip()

application.address = nav_string.findNext(text=location_re).split(":")[1].strip()
application.postcode = getPostcodeFromText(application.address)

application.description = nav_string.findNext(text="Proposal: ").findNext("td").string.strip()

application.comment_url = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, nav_string.findNext(text="Proposal: ").findNext("a")['href'])

application.date_received = datetime.datetime.strptime(nav_string.findNext(text=date_received_re).split(": ")[1], date_format).date()

# FIXME: There is no appropriate info_url for the Harrow apps.
# I'll put the base url for the moment, but as that is
# a list of apps from the last 7 days that will quickly be out of date.

application.info_url = self.base_url
self._results.addApplication(application)

return self._results

def getResults(self, day, month, year):
return self.getResultsByDayMonthYear(int(day), int(month), int(year)).displayXML()

if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = HarrowParser()
print parser.getResults(21,5,2008)


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"Birmingham.py", "420"
"KingstonUponThames.py", "420"
"Hounslow.py", "420"
"Harrow.py", "420"

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"Birmingham City Council", "Birmingham", "", "Birmingham", "BirminghamParser"
"Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames", "Kingston upon Thames", "", "KingstonUponThames", "KingstonParser"
"London Borough of Hounslow", "Hounslow", "", "Hounslow", "HounslowParser"
"London Borough of Harrow", "Harrow", "", "Harrow", "HarrowParser"

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