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vath/scraper/spiders/forum.py

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import re
from datetime import datetime
import scrapy
from scraper.items import CommentItem, ForumItem
_BASE = "https://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/ViewComments.cfm"
_NBSP = "\xa0"
_REPLACEMENT_CHAR = "<EFBFBD>"
def _view_url(forum_id):
return f"{_BASE}?GdocForumID={forum_id}"
def _parse_date(raw):
normalized = " ".join(raw.split()).upper()
try:
return datetime.strptime(normalized, "%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p").isoformat()
except ValueError:
return raw
class ForumSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "forum"
allowed_domains = ["townhall.virginia.gov"]
# Override at runtime: scrapy crawl forum -a forum_id=452
forum_id = "452"
per_page = 500
@classmethod
def from_crawler(cls, crawler, *args, **kwargs):
spider = super().from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
crawler.settings.set(
"FEEDS",
{
f"output/forum{spider.forum_id}_comments_%(time)s.jsonl": {
"format": "jsonlines",
"encoding": "utf-8",
"overwrite": False,
}
},
priority="spider",
)
return spider
async def start(self):
yield scrapy.FormRequest(
_view_url(self.forum_id),
formdata={"vPage": "1", "vPerPage": str(self.per_page), "sub1": "go"},
callback=self.parse_comments,
meta={"is_first": True},
)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
def parse_comments(self, response):
if response.meta.get("is_first"):
reg_title, reg_desc = self._reg_context(response)
last_page = self._last_page(response)
yield ForumItem(
forum_id=self.forum_id,
reg_title=reg_title,
reg_desc=reg_desc,
scraped_at=datetime.utcnow().isoformat(),
forum_url=_view_url(self.forum_id),
)
for page in range(2, last_page + 1):
yield scrapy.FormRequest(
_view_url(self.forum_id),
formdata={"vPage": str(page), "vPerPage": str(self.per_page), "sub1": "go"},
callback=self.parse_comments,
)
for box in response.css("div.Cbox"):
yield self._parse_box(box)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
def _parse_box(self, box):
cbox_id = box.attrib.get("id", "")
comment_id = cbox_id[len("cbox"):] if cbox_id.startswith("cbox") else ""
date_raw = (
box.css("div[style*='float: right'] div::text").get("")
.replace(_NBSP, " ").strip()
)
author = (
box.xpath('.//strong[contains(text(),"Commenter:")]/following-sibling::text()[1]')
.get("").strip()
)
# Second <strong> in the commenter block is the comment title
strongs = box.css("div > strong::text").getall()
title = strongs[-1].strip() if len(strongs) > 1 else ""
paragraphs = box.css(".divComment *::text, .divComment::text").getall()
text = " ".join(p.strip() for p in paragraphs if p.strip())
text = text.replace(_NBSP, " ").replace(_REPLACEMENT_CHAR, "'").strip()
return CommentItem(
forum_id=self.forum_id,
comment_id=comment_id,
author=author,
date=_parse_date(date_raw),
title=title,
text=text,
)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
def _reg_context(self, response):
# Page shows: <strong>Guidance Document Change:</strong> description text...
label_node = response.xpath('//strong[contains(text(),"Change:")]')
# Collect all sibling text nodes following the label
siblings = label_node.xpath("following-sibling::text()").getall()
raw = " ".join(t.strip() for t in siblings if t.strip())
raw = raw.replace(_NBSP, " ").replace(_REPLACEMENT_CHAR, "'").strip()
reg_desc = raw
# reg_title: text up to the first "was " clause or first 200 chars
m = re.match(r"^(.+?)\s+(?:was |has |guidance document)", raw, re.IGNORECASE)
reg_title = m.group(1).strip() if m else raw[:200]
return reg_title, reg_desc
def _last_page(self, response):
hrefs = response.xpath(
'//form[@name="page"]//a[contains(@href,"vpage.value=")]/@href'
).getall()
pages = [
int(m.group(1))
for h in hrefs
if (m := re.search(r"vpage\.value=(\d+)", h))
]
return max(pages) if pages else 1