So here I am porting my ancient newspipe front-end to Snakelets and Python, and I’ve just trimmed down over 20 lines of PHP down to essentially one line of BeautifulSoup retrieval:
def parseWapProfile(self, url): """ Invoked for unknown (uncached) UAs """ result = fetch.fetchURL(url) soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(result['data'], convertEntities=BeautifulStoneSoup.HTML_ENTITIES) try: width, height = soup('prf:screensize')[0].contents[0].split('x') except: width = height = None return {"width": width, "height": height}
Of course there’s a lot more error handling to do (and useful data to glean off the XML), but being able to cut through all the usual parsing crap is immensely gratifying.
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