correspondent-rss-feed/correspondent_rss.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.7

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from lxml import etree
from sys import argv
from datetime import datetime
import time
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", required=True, type=str, help="Je gebruikersname (e-mailadres) voor de correspondent")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", required=True,type=str, help="Je wachtwoord voor de correspondent")
parser.add_argument("-o", "--outfile", required=True, type=str, help="Volledig pad met filename waar de XML moet worden gezet")

args = parser.parse_args()

emailaddr = args.username
password = args.password
outfile = args.outfile

class Article:
    def __init__(self, card):
        self.card = card
        self.full = self.get_full_article()

    @property
    def title(self):
        return self.card.find('a', class_='publication-card__title').text.strip()

    @property
    def author(self):
        authors = self.card.find('div', class_='publication-card__names').find_all('div')
        return ", ".join([author.text.strip() for author in authors])
    
    @property
    def link(self):
        return self.card.find('a', class_='publication-card__title')['href']

    @property
    def date(self):
        return self.full.find('time')['datetime']

    @property
    def rfc_822_date(self):
        return datetime.strptime(self.date, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z").strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
    
    @property
    def summary(self):
        summary = self.full.find('div', class_='article-lead')
        if not summary:
            return None
        return summary.text.strip()
    
    def get_full_article(self):
        r = requests.get(self.link, cookies=self.cookies, headers=self.headers)        
        while r.status_code != 200:
            print("Waiting for rate-limiter...")
            time.sleep(10)
            r = requests.get(self.link, cookies=self.cookies, headers=self.headers)
        return BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')


response = requests.post(
    url="https://decorrespondent.nl/api2/account/password-authenticate",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Origin": "https://decorrespondent.nl",
        "Pragma": "no-cache",
        "Accept": "application/json",
        "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15",
        "Referer": "https://decorrespondent.nl/inloggen",
        "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
    },
    json={"emailAddress": emailaddr, "password": password},
    stream = True
)
cookies = response.raw.headers["Set-Cookie"]
cookies_list = cookies.split("; ")
cookies_dict = {item.split("=")[0]:item.split("=")[1] for item in cookies_list if "=" in item}
cookies_reuse = {"session": cookies_dict["secure, session"], "cookies-cleaned": cookies_dict["cookies-cleaned"]}

Article.headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15"}
Article.cookies = {"session": cookies_dict["secure, session"], "cookies-cleaned": cookies_dict["cookies-cleaned"]}



req = requests.get("https://decorrespondent.nl/recent",
                    headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15"},
                    cookies=cookies_reuse)
soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
articles = (Article(html) for html in soup.find_all('div', class_='publication-card__body'))

feed = {"version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
        "title": "De Correspondent",
        "home_page_url": "https://decorrespondent.nl",
        "feed_url": "https://finetuned.nl/decorrespondent.json",
        "items": []}

for article in articles:
    feed["items"].append({"id": id,
                          "title": article.title,
                          "link": article.link,
                          "content_text": article.summary,
                          "summary": article.summary,
                          "date_published": article.date,
                          "author": article.author,
                          "rfc822_date": article.rfc_822_date})

# Construct XML feed

root = etree.Element("rss", version="2.0")
channel = etree.Element("channel")
title = etree.Element('title')
title.text = "De Correspondent"
channel.append(title)

link = etree.Element('link')
link.text = "https://decorrespondent.nl"
channel.append(link)

description = etree.Element('description')
description.text = "Een dagelijks medicijn tegen de waan van de dag"
channel.append(description)

for article in feed['items']:
    item = etree.Element('item')
    title = etree.Element('title')
    title.text = article['title']
    item.append(title)

    description = etree.Element('description')
    description.text = article['summary']
    item.append(description)

    link = etree.Element('link')
    link.text = article['link']
    item.append(link)

    guid = etree.Element('guid')
    guid.text = article['link']
    item.append(guid)

    pubDate = etree.Element('pubDate')
    pubDate.text = article['rfc822_date']
    item.append(pubDate)

    author = etree.Element('author')
    author.text = article['author']
    item.append(author)

    channel.append(item)
root.append(channel)

tree = etree.ElementTree(root)

with open(outfile, "wb") as file:
    tree.write(file, pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True, encoding='utf-8')