import urllib2 import urllib import urlparse import datetime, time import cgi import re from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup from PlanningUtils import PlanningApplication, \ PlanningAuthorityResults, \ getPostcodeFromText date_format = "%d/%m/%Y" class FlintshireParser: def __init__(self, *args): self.authority_name = "Flintshire County Council" self.authority_short_name = "Flintshire" # I've removed some extra variables from this, it seems to be happy without them, and now doesn't need to paginate... self.base_url = "http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/webcont/fssplaps.nsf/vwa_Search?searchview&Query=(%%5BfrmDteAppldate%%5D%%20%%3E=%%20%(start_date)s%%20AND%%20%%5BfrmDteAppldate%%5D%%20%%3C=%%20%(end_date)s)" self._results = PlanningAuthorityResults(self.authority_name, self.authority_short_name) def getResultsByDayMonthYear(self, day, month, year): search_date = datetime.date(year, month, day) # We'll set the start date to be one day earlier in order to catch the first result on every day at some point - see TODO list response = urllib2.urlopen(self.base_url %{"end_date": search_date.strftime(date_format), "start_date": (search_date - datetime.timedelta(1)).strftime(date_format)}) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read()) # Each app is stored in it's own table result_tables = soup.findAll("table", border="1") # For the moment, we'll have to ignore the first result (see TODO list). for table in result_tables[1:]: application = PlanningApplication() # It's not clear to me why this next one isn't the string of the next sibling. This works though! application.council_reference = table.find(text=re.compile("Reference")).parent.findNextSibling().contents[0] application.address = table.find(text="Location").parent.findNextSibling().string.strip() application.postcode = getPostcodeFromText(application.address) application.info_url = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, table.a['href']) # Let's go to the info_page and get the OSGB and the date_received info_request = urllib2.Request(application.info_url) # We need to add the language header in order to get UK style dates info_request.add_header("Accept-Language", "en-gb,en") info_response = urllib2.urlopen(info_request) info_soup = BeautifulSoup(info_response.read()) grid_reference_td = info_soup.find(text="Grid Reference").findNext("td") x_element = grid_reference_td.font application.osgb_x = x_element.string.strip() application.osgb_y = x_element.nextSibling.nextSibling.string.strip() date_string = info_soup.find(text="Date Valid").findNext("td").string.strip() application.date_received = datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, date_format)[0:6])) application.description = table.find(text=re.compile("Description of Proposal")).parent.nextSibling.string.strip() # There is a link to comment from the info page, though I can't click it. application.comment_url = application.info_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 = FlintshireParser() print parser.getResults(22,5,2008) # TODO # 1) Email the council about broken first result. # This is always # slightly broken (two s for one of the s and upsets beautiful # soup.