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{
"translatorID":"aa6ba023-4fbe-407c-b0c3-5997887db1eb",
"label":"VoxEU",
"creator":"Sebastian Karcher",
"target":"^https?://www\\.voxeu\\.org",
"minVersion":"1.0",
"maxVersion":"",
"priority":100,
"inRepository":"1",
"translatorType":4,
"lastUpdated":"2011-04-21 03:49:25"
}
/**
Copyright (c) 2010, Erik Hetzner
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
function flatten(a) {
var retval = new Array();
for (var i in a) {
var entry = a[i];
if (entry instanceof Array) {
retval = retval.concat(flatten(entry));
} else {
retval.push(entry);
}
}
return retval;
}
/* Generic code */
var FW = {
_scrapers : new Array()
};
FW._Base = function () {
this.callHook = function (hookName, item, doc, url) {
if (typeof this['hooks'] === 'object') {
var hook = this['hooks'][hookName];
if (typeof hook === 'function') {
hook(item, doc, url);
}
}
};
this.evaluateThing = function(val, doc, url) {
var valtype = typeof val;
if (valtype === 'string') {
return val;
} else if (valtype === 'object') {
if (val instanceof Array) {
/* map over each array val */
/* this.evaluate gets out of scope */
var parentEval = this.evaluateThing;
var retval = val.map ( function(i) { return parentEval (i, doc, url); } );
return flatten(retval);
} else {
return val.evaluate(doc, url);
}
} else if (valtype === 'function') {
return val(doc, url);
} else {
return undefined;
}
};
this.evaluate = function (key, doc, url) {
return this.evaluateThing(this[key], doc, url);
};
};
FW.Scraper = function (init) {
FW._scrapers.push(new FW._Scraper(init));
};
FW._Scraper = function (init) {
for (x in init) {
this[x] = init[x];
}
this._singleFieldNames = [
"abstractNote",
"applicationNumber",
"archive",
"archiveLocation",
"artworkMedium",
"artworkSize",
"assignee",
"audioFileType",
"audioRecordingType",
"billNumber",
"blogTitle",
"bookTitle",
"callNumber",
"caseName",
"code",
"codeNumber",
"codePages",
"codeVolume",
"committee",
"company",
"conferenceName",
"country",
"court",
"date",
"dateDecided",
"dateEnacted",
"dictionaryTitle",
"distributor",
"docketNumber",
"documentNumber",
"DOI",
"edition",
"encyclopediaTitle",
"episodeNumber",
"extra",
"filingDate",
"firstPage",
"forumTitle",
"genre",
"history",
"institution",
"interviewMedium",
"ISBN",
"ISSN",
"issue",
"issueDate",
"issuingAuthority",
"journalAbbreviation",
"label",
"language",
"legalStatus",
"legislativeBody",
"letterType",
"libraryCatalog",
"manuscriptType",
"mapType",
"medium",
"meetingName",
"nameOfAct",
"network",
"number",
"numberOfVolumes",
"numPages",
"pages",
"patentNumber",
"place",
"postType",
"presentationType",
"priorityNumbers",
"proceedingsTitle",
"programTitle",
"programmingLanguage",
"publicLawNumber",
"publicationTitle",
"publisher",
"references",
"reportNumber",
"reportType",
"reporter",
"reporterVolume",
"rights",
"runningTime",
"scale",
"section",
"series",
"seriesNumber",
"seriesText",
"seriesTitle",
"session",
"shortTitle",
"studio",
"subject",
"system",
"thesisType",
"title",
"type",
"university",
"url",
"version",
"videoRecordingType",
"volume",
"websiteTitle",
"websiteType" ];
this.makeItems = function (doc, url) {
var item = new Zotero.Item(this.itemType);
item.url = url;
for (var i in this._singleFieldNames) {
var field = this._singleFieldNames[i];
if (this[field]) {
var fieldVal = this.evaluate(field, doc, url);
if (fieldVal instanceof Array) {
item[field] = fieldVal[0];
} else {
item[field] = fieldVal;
}
}
}
var multiFields = ["creators", "attachments", "tags"];
for (var j in multiFields) {
var key = multiFields[j];
var val = this.evaluate(key, doc, url);
if (val) {
for (var k in val) {
item[key].push(val[k]);
}
}
}
return [item];
};
};
FW._Scraper.prototype = new FW._Base;
FW.MultiScraper = function (init) {
FW._scrapers.push(new FW._MultiScraper(init));
};
FW._MultiScraper = function (init) {
for (x in init) {
this[x] = init[x];
}
this._mkSelectItems = function(titles, urls) {
var items = new Object;
for (var i in titles) {
items[urls[i]] = titles[i];
}
return items;
};
this._selectItems = function(titles, urls) {
var items = new Array();
for (var j in Zotero.selectItems(this._mkSelectItems(titles, urls))) {
items.push(j);
}
return items;
};
this._mkAttachments = function(doc, url, urls) {
var attachmentsArray = this.evaluate('attachments', doc, url);
var attachmentsDict = new Object();
if (attachmentsArray) {
for (var i in urls) {
attachmentsDict[urls[i]] = attachmentsArray[i];
}
}
return attachmentsDict;
};
this.makeItems = function(doc, url) {
Zotero.debug("Entering MultiScraper.makeItems");
if (this.beforeFilter) {
var newurl = this.beforeFilter(doc, url);
if (newurl != url) {
return this.makeItems(Zotero.Utilities.retrieveDocument(url), newurl);
}
}
var titles = this.evaluate('titles', doc, url);
var urls = this.evaluate('urls', doc, url);
var itemsToUse = this._selectItems(titles, urls);
var attachments = this._mkAttachments(doc, url, urls);
if(!itemsToUse) {
Zotero.done(true);
return [];
} else {
var madeItems = new Array();
for (var i in itemsToUse) {
var url1 = itemsToUse[i];
var doc1 = Zotero.Utilities.retrieveDocument(url1);
var itemTrans;
if (this.itemTrans) {
itemTrans = this.itemTrans;
} else {
itemTrans = FW.getScraper(doc1, url1);
}
var items = itemTrans.makeItems(doc1, url1, attachments[url1]);
madeItems.push(items[0]);
}
return madeItems;
}
};
};
FW._MultiScraper.prototype = new FW._Base;
FW.DelegateTranslator = function (init) {
return new FW._DelegateTranslator(init);
};
FW._DelegateTranslator = function (init) {
for (x in init) {
this[x] = init[x];
}
this._translator = Zotero.loadTranslator(this.translatorType);
this._translator.setTranslator(this.translatorId);
this.makeItems = function(doc, url, attachments) {
Zotero.debug("Entering DelegateTranslator.makeItems");
var tmpItem;
var text = Zotero.Utilities.retrieveSource(url);
this._translator.setHandler("itemDone", function(obj, item) {
tmpItem = item;
/* this does not seem to be working */
if (attachments) { item.attachments = attachments; }
});
this._translator.setString(text);
this._translator.translate();
Zotero.debug("Leaving DelegateTranslator.makeItems");
return [tmpItem];
};
};
FW.DelegateTranslator.prototype = new FW._Scraper;
FW._StringMagic = function () {
this._filters = new Array();
this.addFilter = function(filter) {
this._filters.push(filter);
return this;
};
this.split = function(re) {
return this.addFilter(function(s) {
return s.split(re).filter(function(e) { return (e != ""); });
});
};
this.replace = function(s1, s2, flags) {
return this.addFilter(function(s) {
if (s.match(s1)) {
return s.replace(s1, s2, flags);
} else {
return s;
}
});
};
this.prepend = function(prefix) {
return this.replace(/^/, prefix);
};
this.append = function(postfix) {
return this.replace(/$/, postfix);
};
this.remove = function(toStrip, flags) {
return this.replace(toStrip, '', flags);
};
this.trim = function() {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return Zotero.Utilities.trim(s); });
};
this.trimInternal = function() {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(s); });
};
this.match = function(re, group) {
if (!group) group = 0;
return this.addFilter(function(s) {
var m = s.match(re);
if (m === undefined) { return undefined; }
else { return m[group]; }
});
};
this.cleanAuthor = function(type, useComma) {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(s, type, useComma); });
};
this.key = function(field) {
return this.addFilter(function(n) { return n[field]; });
};
this.capitalizeTitle = function() {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return Zotero.Utilities.capitalizeTitle(s); });
};
this.unescapeHTML = function() {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return Zotero.Utilities.unescapeHTML(s); });
};
this.unescape = function() {
return this.addFilter(function(s) { return unescape(s); });
};
this.makeAttachment = function(type, title) {
var filter = function(url) {
if (url) {
return { url : url,
type : type,
title : title };
} else {
return undefined;
}
};
return this.addFilter(filter);
};
this._applyFilters = function(a, doc1) {
Zotero.debug("Entering StringMagic._applyFilters");
for (i in this._filters) {
a = flatten(a);
/* remove undefined or null array entries */
a = a.filter(function(x) { return ((x !== undefined) && (x !== null)); });
for (var j = 0 ; j < a.length ; j++) {
try {
if ((a[j] === undefined) || (a[j] === null)) { continue; }
else { a[j] = this._filters[i](a[j], doc1); }
} catch (x) {
a[j] = undefined;
Zotero.debug("Caught exception " + x + "on filter: " + this._filters[i]);
}
}
/* remove undefined or null array entries */
/* need this twice because they could have become undefined or null along the way */
a = a.filter(function(x) { return ((x !== undefined) && (x !== null)); });
}
return a;
};
};
FW.PageText = function () {
return new FW._PageText();
};
FW._PageText = function() {
this._filters = new Array();
this.evaluate = function (doc) {
var a = [doc.documentElement.innerHTML];
a = this._applyFilters(a, doc);
if (a.length == 0) { return false; }
else { return a; }
};
};
FW._PageText.prototype = new FW._StringMagic();
FW.Url = function () { return new FW._Url(); };
FW._Url = function () {
this._filters = new Array();
this.evaluate = function (doc, url) {
var a = [url];
a = this._applyFilters(a, doc);
if (a.length == 0) { return false; }
else { return a; }
};
};
FW._Url.prototype = new FW._StringMagic();
FW.Xpath = function (xpathExpr) { return new FW._Xpath(xpathExpr); };
FW._Xpath = function (_xpath) {
this._xpath = _xpath;
this._filters = new Array();
this.text = function() {
var filter = function(n) {
if (typeof n === 'object' && n.textContent) { return n.textContent; }
else { return n; }
};
this.addFilter(filter);
return this;
};
this.sub = function(xpath) {
var filter = function(n, doc) {
var result = doc.evaluate(xpath, n, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
if (result) {
return result.iterateNext();
} else {
return undefined;
}
};
this.addFilter(filter);
return this;
};
this.evaluate = function (doc) {
var it = doc.evaluate(this._xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
var a = new Array();
var x;
while (x = it.iterateNext()) { a.push(x); }
a = this._applyFilters(a, doc);
if (a.length == 0) { return false; }
else { return a; }
};
};
FW._Xpath.prototype = new FW._StringMagic();
FW.detectWeb = function (doc, url) {
for (var i in FW._scrapers) {
var scraper = FW._scrapers[i];
var itemType = scraper.evaluate('itemType', doc, url);
if (!scraper.detect) {
return itemType;
} else {
var v = scraper.evaluate('detect', doc, url);
if (v.length > 0 && v[0]) {
return itemType;
}
}
}
return undefined;
};
FW.getScraper = function (doc, url) {
var itemType = FW.detectWeb(doc, url);
return FW._scrapers.filter(function(s) {
return (s.evaluate('itemType', doc, url) == itemType)
&& (s.evaluate('detect', doc, url))
})[0];
};
FW.doWeb = function (doc, url) {
Zotero.debug("Entering FW.doWeb");
var scraper = FW.getScraper(doc, url);
var items = scraper.makeItems(doc, url);
for (var i in items) {
scraper.callHook('scraperDone', items[i], doc, url);
items[i].complete();
}
Zotero.debug("Leaving FW.doWeb");
};
/* End generic code */
/*Examples:
Individual item
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6258
Search results
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=search/node/eichengreen */
function detectWeb(doc, url) { return FW.detectWeb(doc, url); }
function doWeb(doc, url) { return FW.doWeb(doc, url); }
/** Articles */
FW.Scraper({
itemType : 'blogPost',
detect : FW.Xpath('//div[@class="terms"]'),
title : FW.Xpath('//div[@id="main"]/div[@id="squeeze"]/h1').text().trim(),
attachments : FW.Url().makeAttachment("text/html", "voxEU snapshot"),
creators : FW.Xpath('//table[@class="layouttable"]/tbody/*/td/p/a ').text().cleanAuthor("author"),
abstractNote : FW.Xpath('//table[@class="layouttable"]/tbody/tr/td/div/em').text(),
date : FW.Xpath('//table[@class="layouttable"]/tbody/*/td/p/text()[last()] ').text(),
publicationTitle : "VoxEU.org",
tags : FW.Xpath('//div[@class="terms"]//li').text()
});
/** Search results */
FW.MultiScraper({
itemType : "multiple",
detect : FW.Xpath('//div[@class="content"]/dl[contains(@class, "search-results")]'),
titles : FW.Xpath('//div[@class="content"]/dl/dt[@class="title"]/a').text(),
urls : FW.Xpath('//div[@class="content"]/dl/dt[@class="title"]/a').key('href').text()
});
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