Episode Crawler

checkepisode.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import ConfigParser


configFile = '~/.episodeSearch.config'
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.readfp(open(configFile))
series = config.sections()
series.remove('User')

mail = config.get("User", "mailaddress")
password = config.get("User", "password")
smptserver = config.get("User", "smptserver")
smptuser = config.get("User", "smptuser")
sendername = config.get("User", "sender")
sendermail = config.get("User", "sendermail")

new_episodes = []
for item in series:
    url = config.get(item, "url")
    latest_in_file = config.get(item, "latest")
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    html = response.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    latest = soup.find('div', 'latest-episode')
    latest = BeautifulSoup(str(latest))
    latest = latest.a.string
    latest = latest.encode('utf8')
    if latest != latest_in_file:
        config.set(item, "latest", latest)
        latest = item + ": " + latest
        new_episodes.append(latest)

# write new latest to file
if len(new_episodes) >= 1:
    with open(configFile, 'wb') as newconfigfile:
            config.write(newconfigfile)

if len(new_episodes) >= 1:
    # this invokes the secure SMTP protocol (port 465, uses SSL)
    # from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP
    from smtplib import SMTP                # use this for standard SMTP
    # protocol   (port 25, no encryption)
    from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
    import sys

    try:
        content = '\n'.join(new_episodes)
        subject = "NEW EPISODES AVAILABLE"
        msg = MIMEText(content, 'plain')
        msg['subject'] = subject
        msg['From'] = sendername

        conn = SMTP(smptserver)
        conn.set_debuglevel(False)
        conn.login(smptuser, password)
        try:
            conn.sendmail(sendermail, mail, msg.as_string())
        finally:
            conn.close()
    except Exception, exc:
            sys.exit("mail failed; %s" % str(exc))  # give a error message

Checks if a new episode is available on watchseries.com

the config file will need to include the mail setting section called "User".
To include new series just add another section in the config file