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wrote function to grab registrar index urls
# Conflicts: # components/graph/graph_view_assembly.jsx
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crawlers/ucsc/fetch_index.py

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import re
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from urllib2 import urlopen
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
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def fetch_soup (url):
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response = urlopen(url)
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return BeautifulSoup(response.read(), 'html.parser')
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def enforce (condition, msg, *args):
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if not condition:
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raise Exception(msg % args)
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def parse_department_link (a):
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href = a['href'] #if 'href' in a else ''
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#title = a['title'] if 'title' in a else ''
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match = re.match(r'program.statements/([a-z]+\.html)', href)
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enforce(match, "Unexpected link url: '%s'", href)
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text = a.text
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if text:
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return text, href
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def parse_department_links (links):
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for link in links:
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result = parse_department_link(link)
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if result:
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yield result
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def fetch_department_urls (base_url = 'https://registrar.ucsc.edu/catalog/programs-courses'):
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index_url = '%s/index.html'%base_url
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soup = fetch_soup(index_url)
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dept_anchor = soup.find('a', id='departments')
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enforce(dept_anchor, "Could not find '%s/#departments'", index_url)
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header = dept_anchor.parent
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enforce(header.name == "h2", "Unexpected: is not a h2 tag (got '%s')", header.name)
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table = header.findNext('td')
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enforce(table.name == "td", "Expected element after heading to be table, not '%s'", table.name)
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return {k: '%s/%s'%(base_url, v) for k, v in parse_department_links(table.find_all('a'))}
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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result = fetch_department_urls()
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print(result)

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