A script that checks for a given phrase in all text based files in (and deeper) in a directory. Best use case would be with moving a website from one domain to another and then having to deal with static URLs.

PhraseScan.py

import glob


def get_files(scan_folder):
	"""
	Gets all the files deeper in from the provided scan_folder.
	Does a recursive "search" using glob.
	"""
	if scan_folder[:-1] != '/':
		scan_folder += '/'
	return [filename for filename in glob.iglob(scan_folder + '**/*.*', recursive=True)]


def search_for_phrase(filename, phrase, ignore_case=False):
	"""
	A line for line scan gets done on a normal text file to check if a line contains the provided phrase.
	"""
	try:
		content = [x.strip() for x in open(filename).readlines()]
		for line_number in range(0, len(content)):
			if (content[line_number].lower() if ignore_case else content[line_number]).__contains__((phrase.lower() if ignore_case else phrase)):
				print(f'FN: {filename}, LN: {line_number + 1}\nContent: {content[line_number]}\n')
	except:
		pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
	base_folder = ''
	search_phrase = ''

	files = get_files(base_folder)

	for f in files:
		search_for_phrase(f, search_phrase, ignore_case=True)