Download all quotes from GoodReads by author's quote URL, print in fortune format

goodreadsquotes.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vim:fenc=utf-8
#
# Copyleft (ↄ) 2016 jkirchartz <me@jkirchartz.com>
#
# Distributed under terms of the NPL (Necessary Public License) license.

"""
Download all quotes from GoodReads by author's quote URL, print in fortune format
usage:
        python goodreadsquotes.py https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1791.Seth_Godin > godin
"""

from pyquery import PyQuery
import sys, random, re, time


AUTHOR_REX = re.compile('\d+\.(\w+)$')

def grabber(base_url, i=1):
    url = base_url + "?page=" + str(i)
    page = PyQuery(url)
    quotes = page(".quoteText")
    auth_match = re.search(AUTHOR_REX, base_url)
    if auth_match:
      author = re.sub('_', ' ', auth_match.group(1))
    else:
      author = False
    # sys.stderr.write(url + "\n")
    for quote in quotes.items():
        quote = quote.remove('script').text().encode('ascii', 'ignore')
        if author:
          quote = quote.replace(author, " -- " + author)
        print quote
        print '%'

    if not page('.next_page').hasClass('disabled'):
      time.sleep(10)
      grabber(base_url, i + 1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  grabber(''.join(sys.argv[1:]))

I don't know Python so currently can't fix the problem , there is an error --> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(print quote)? (line 35)

Just add () around quote. Python 3 needs brackets for printing. May be the above code is in python 2.

Print (quote)
Print (%)

Here's a version patched up for python3.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vim:fenc=utf-8
# https://gist.github.com/JKirchartz/80ad6ec90d44b58486db89058d2fdb37
#
# Copyleft (ↄ) 2016 jkirchartz <me@jkirchartz.com>
#
# Distributed under terms of the NPL (Necessary Public License) license.

"""
Download all quotes from GoodReads by author's quote URL, print in fortune format
usage:
        python goodreadsquotes.py https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1791.Seth_Godin > godin
"""

from pyquery import PyQuery
import sys, random, re, time

AUTHOR_REX = re.compile('\d+\.(\w+)$')

def grabber(base_url, i=1):
    url = "{}?page={}".format(base_url, str(i))
    page = PyQuery(url)
    quotes = page(".quoteText")
    auth_match = re.search(AUTHOR_REX, base_url)
    if auth_match:
        author = re.sub('_', ' ', auth_match.group(1))
    else:
        author = False
    for quote in quotes.items():
        quote = quote.remove('script').text().encode('ascii', 'ignore')

        if author:
            quote = quote.decode('utf-8').replace(author, " -- " + author)

        print(quote)
        print('%')

    if not page('.next_page').hasClass('disabled'):
        time.sleep(10)
    grabber(base_url, i + 1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    grabber(''.join(sys.argv[1:]))

Doesn't seem to be working for me, it just gets stuck without ever retrieving a quote.