""" This is the screenscraper for planning apps from Wychavon District Council. This appears to be an Acolnet variant, and is searched by a block of months. """ import urllib import urlparse import datetime from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup from PlanningUtils import PlanningApplication, \ PlanningAuthorityResults, \ getPostcodeFromText class WychavonParser: def __init__(self, *args): self.authority_name = "Wychavon" self.authority_short_name = "Wychavon" # Currently hard coded--if this address updates, we'll need to scrape # the search form to get it each time. self.base_url = "http://www.e-wychavon.org.uk/scripts/plan2005/\ acolnetcgi.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&WhereDescription=General%20Search&\ Whereclause3=%27%30%31%2F%7BEdtMonthEnd%7D%2F%7BEdtYearEnd%7D%27&\ RIPNAME=Root%2EPages%2EPgeDC%2EPgeListCases" self._results = PlanningAuthorityResults(self.authority_name, self.authority_short_name) def getResultsByDayMonthYear(self, day, month, year): form_data = "EdtYearNo=&EdtCaseNo=&EdtApplicant=&EdtAgent=&EdtLocation"\ + "=&EdtWard=&EdtMonthStart1=" + str(month) + "&EdtYearStart=" \ + str(year) + "&EdtMonthEnd=" + str(month) + "&EdtYearEnd="\ + str(year) + "&submit=Search" # Fetch the results response = urllib.urlopen(self.base_url, form_data) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read()) #Each set of results has its own table results_tables = soup.findAll("table", cellpadding="2", cols="4") for table in results_tables: application = PlanningApplication() trs = table.findAll("tr") application.council_reference = trs[0].findAll("td")[1].font.font.\ font.string.strip() relative_info_url = trs[0].findAll("td")[1].a['href'] application.info_url = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, relative_info_url) application.address = trs[1].findAll("td")[1].font.string.strip() application.postcode = getPostcodeFromText(application.address) #This code avoids an error if there's no description given. descrip = trs[2].findAll("td")[1].font.string if descrip == None: application.description = "" else: application.description = descrip.strip() date_format = "%d/%m/%y" date_string = trs[1].findAll("td")[3].font.string.strip() application.date_received = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, date_format) apptype = trs[0].findAll("td")[3].font.string # Avoids throwing an error if no apptype is given (this can happen) if apptype != None: apptype = apptype.strip() # Is all this really necessary? I don't know, but I've assumed that # it is. The form will appear without the suffix, I don't know if # the council's backend would accept it or not. Current behaviour # is to degrade silently to no suffix if it can't match an # application type. if apptype == "Telecommunications": # Don't know why it's a naked IP rather than sitting on the # same site, but there it is. application.comment_url = "http://81.171.139.151/WAM/createCom"\ +"ment.do?action=CreateApplicationComment&applicationType=PLANNI"\ +"NG&appNumber=T3/" + application.council_reference + "/TC" else: comment_url = "http://81.171.139.151/WAM/createComment.do?acti"\ +"on=CreateApplicationComment&applicationType=PLANNING&appNumber"\ +"=W/" + application.council_reference + "/" suffix = "" if apptype == "Householder planning application": suffix = "PP" elif apptype == "Non-householder planning application": suffix = "PN" elif apptype == "Outline applications": suffix = "OU" elif apptype == "Change of use": suffix = "CU" elif apptype == "Listed Building consent": suffix = "LB" elif apptype == "Advertisement application": suffix = "AA" elif apptype == "Certificate of Lawfulness Existing": suffix = "LUE" elif apptype == "Approval of reserved matters": suffix = "VOC" #These are all the ones that I found, except "Advice - Pre-app/ #Householder", the suffix for which is inconsistent. The suffix #for this could be obtained by scraping the description page for #each application. application.comment_url = comment_url + suffix 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 = WychavonParser() #Put this in with constant numbers, copying the Barnsley example. Works for testing, but should it use the arguments for a real run? print parser.getResults(16,3,2009)