Quotes timecube.com

timecube.py

from urllib.request import *
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import sys
import os
import random

class _TimecubeParser(HTMLParser):
	def __init__(self):
		super().__init__(self)
		self.in_span = False
		self.pieces = []

	def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
		if tag.lower() == "span":
			self.in_span = True
	def handle_endtag(self, tag):
		if tag.lower() == "span":
			self.in_span = False
	def handle_data(self, data):
		if not self.in_span:
			return
		if data == "\r\n\r\n" or data == "\r\n" or data == " ":
			# The markup is pretty strange so lets ignore
			# some weird occurances.
			pass
		else:
			self.pieces.append(data.replace("\r\n", " ").strip())

def get_page_bytes():
	data = b''
	with urlopen("http://www.timecube.com/") as r:
		#print(r.status, r.reason)
		data = r.read()
	return data

def get_random_text(n = 3):
	b = get_page_bytes()
	# Assume utf-8
	text = b.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
	parser = _TimecubeParser()	
	parser.feed(text)

	text = set(map(lambda p: p.strip() + ".", " ".join(parser.pieces).split(".")))

	return random.sample(text, n)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	print("\n\n".join(get_random_text()))