python version for https://askubuntu.com/questions/991447/how-do-i-create-a-cli-web-spider-that-uses-keywords-and-filters-content

script.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import json

import bs4
import click
import aiohttp
import asyncio
import async_timeout


BASE_URL = 'http://e-bane.net'


async def fetch(session, url):
    while(1):
        try:
            with async_timeout.timeout(20):
                async with session.get(url) as response:
                    return await response.text()
        except asyncio.TimeoutError as e:
            print('[{}]{}'.format(e, url))


async def get_result(user):
    target_url = 'http://e-bane.net/modules.php?name=Stories_Archive'
    res = []
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        html = await fetch(session, target_url)
        html_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
        date_module_links = parse_date_module_links(html_soup)
        for dm_link in date_module_links:
            html = await fetch(session, dm_link)
            html_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
            thread_links = parse_thread_links(html_soup)
            print('[{}]{}'.format(len(thread_links), dm_link))
            for t_link in thread_links:
                thread_html = await fetch(session, t_link)
                t_html_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(thread_html, 'html.parser')
                if is_article_match(t_html_soup, user):
                    print('[v]{}'.format(t_link))
                    res.append(get_main_article(t_html_soup))
                else:
                    print('[x]{}'.format(t_link))

        return res


def parse_date_module_links(page):
    a_tags = page.select('ul li a')
    hrefs = a_tags = [x.get('href') for x in a_tags]
    return [urljoin(BASE_URL, x) for x in hrefs]


def parse_thread_links(page):
    a_tags = page.select('table table  tr  td > a')
    hrefs = a_tags = [x.get('href') for x in a_tags]
    # filter href with 'file=article'
    valid_hrefs = [x for x in hrefs if 'file=article' in x]
    return [urljoin(BASE_URL, x) for x in valid_hrefs]


def is_article_match(page, user):
    main_article = get_main_article(page)
    return main_article.text.startswith(user)


def get_main_article(page):
    td_tags = page.select('table table td.row1')
    td_tag = td_tags[4]
    return td_tag


@click.command()
@click.argument('user')
@click.option('--output-filename', default='out.json', help='Output filename.')
def main(user, output_filename):
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    res = loop.run_until_complete(get_result(user))
    # convert html soup into text
    text_res = [x.text for x in res]
    with open(output_filename, 'w') as f:
        json.dump(text_res, f)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()