""" This is the screenscraper for planning apps for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. The apps for Barnsley are displayed in html pages one per week, starting on monday. There is no date_received, so we'll have to use the date of the start of this week. There is no comment url, so we'll use the email address. Developmentcontrol@barnsley.gov.uk """ import urllib2 import urllib import urlparse import datetime, time import cgi from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup from PlanningUtils import PlanningApplication, \ PlanningAuthorityResults, \ getPostcodeFromText date_format = "%d/%m/%Y" class BarnsleyParser: comments_email_address = "Developmentcontrol@barnsley.gov.uk" def __init__(self, *args): self.authority_name = "Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council" self.authority_short_name = "Barnsley" self.base_url = "http://applications.barnsley.gov.uk/service/development/week_compact.asp?AppDate=%s" self._results = PlanningAuthorityResults(self.authority_name, self.authority_short_name) def getResultsByDayMonthYear(self, day, month, year): search_day = datetime.date(year, month, day) # What we actually need is the monday before the date searched for: monday_before = search_day - datetime.timedelta(search_day.weekday()) # Now get the search page response = urllib2.urlopen(self.base_url %(monday_before.strftime(date_format))) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read()) result_tables = soup.findAll("table", align="Center", cellpadding="3") for table in result_tables: application = PlanningApplication() # We can set the date received and the comment url straight away. application.comment_url = self.comments_email_address trs = table.findAll("tr") application.council_reference = trs[0].a.string.strip() relative_info_url = trs[0].a['href'] application.info_url = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, relative_info_url) application.date_received = monday_before application.address = trs[1].findAll("td")[1].string.strip() application.postcode = getPostcodeFromText(application.address) application.description = trs[2].findAll("td")[1].string.strip() 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 = BarnsleyParser() print parser.getResults(21,5,2008)