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Python script to scrape webpage for weather widget area
#!/usr/bin/env python
# use selenium to take webpage screen shot based on stackoverflow from Corey Goldberg
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3422262/take-a-screenshot-with-selenium-webdriver/6282203#6282203
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3422262/take-a-screenshot-with-selenium-webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
from PIL import Image
import PIL.ImageOps
import time
import numpy as np
fox = webdriver.Firefox()
fox.get('http://mygeekdaddy.net/weather_mn.html')
time.sleep(5)
element = fox.find_element_by_id('weather')
location = element.location
size = element.size
fox.save_screenshot('weather_mn.png')
fox.quit()
# trim selenium screen shot inspired from stackoverlow
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15018372/how-to-take-partial-screenshot-with-selenium-webdriver-in-python
im = Image.open('weather_mn.png')
left = location['x']
top = location['y']
# dimensions added to capture just widget area
right = location['x'] + 500
bottom = location['y'] + 245
im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom)) # defines crop points
im = im.convert("RGB")
im = PIL.ImageOps.invert(im)
im = im.convert("RGBA")
datas = im.getdata()
# make portions of image transparent inspired from stackoverflow by cr333
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/765736/using-pil-to-make-all-white-pixels-transparent
newData = []
for item in datas:
if item[0] == 0 and item[1] == 0 and item[2] == 0:
newData.append((255, 255, 255, 0))
else:
newData.append(item)
im.putdata(newData)
# replace colors based on stackoverflow from Joe Kington
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3752476/python-pil-replace-a-single-rgba-color
data = np.array(im) # "data" is a height x width x 4 numpy array
red, green, blue, alpha = data.T # Temporarily unpack the bands for readability
white_areas = (red == 0) & (blue == 0) & (green == 0)
data[..., :-1][white_areas] = (255, 255, 255)
im2 = Image.fromarray(data)
im2.save("weather_mn_desktop.png", "PNG")
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