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This recipe uses the mechanize module to grab the "number of projects per progamming language" information from two large opensource software release sites. The information is interesting when comparing popularity of programming languages.

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import sys
import re
import mechanize
import pullparser

SOURCEFORGE_URL = 'http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=160'
# sourceforge.net, projects per programming language, parser tokens:
"""
Token('starttag', 'a', [('href', 'trove_list.php?form_cat=163')]),
Token('starttag', 'img', [('src', 'http://images.sourceforge.net..'), ...)
Token('entityref', 'nbsp', None),
Token('data', ' Ada', None),
Token('endtag', 'a', None),
Token('data', ' ', None)]
Token('starttag', 'i', []),
Token('data', '(100 projects)', None),
"""
FRESHMEAT_URL = 'http://freshmeat.net/browse/160/?topic_id=160'
# projects per programming language, parser tokens:
"""
Token('data', 'Programming Language', None),
Token('endtag', 'b', None),
Token('data', '\r\n              ', None),
Token('starttag', 'br', []),
Token('data', '\r\n      \n\r\n      ', None),
Token('starttag', 'li', []),
Token('starttag', 'a', [('href', '/browse/163/')]),
Token('starttag', 'b', []),
Token('data', 'Ada', None),
Token('endtag', 'b', None),
Token('endtag', 'a', None),
Token('data', '\r\n          ', None),
Token('starttag', 'small', []),
Token('data', '(57 projects)', None),
Token('endtag', 'small', None),
Token('data', '\r\n              ', None),
Token('starttag', 'li', []),
Token('starttag', 'a', [('href', '/browse/161/')]),
"""

def get_n_project(s):
	return int(re.compile(r'([\d]*) projects').findall(s)[0])
def sourceforge_get_language_statistics(parser):
	'sourceforge_get_language_statistics(file_obj) -> [ (n_project, language), ... ]'
	def is_language_link(token):
		try:
			if token.type == 'starttag' and token.data == 'a' \
				and 'trove_list.php?form_cat=' in token.attrs[0][1]:
					return True
		except IndexError:
			return False
		return False
	for t in parser.tags():
		if is_language_link(t):
			l = [
			(parser.next(), 'img'),
			(parser.next(), 'nbsp'),
			(parser.next(), 'data(language)'),
			(parser.next(), '/a'),
			(parser.next(), 'data'),
			(parser.next(), 'i'),
			(parser.next(), 'data(n_project)'), ]

			language = l[2][0].data.strip()
			n = l[6][0].data.strip()
			try:
				n_project = get_n_project(n)
			except IndexError:
				continue
			else:
				yield (n_project, language)

def freshmeat_get_language_statistics(parser):
	def is_language_link(token):
		try:
			if token.type == 'starttag' and token.data == 'a' \
				and '/browse/' in token.attrs[0][1]:
					return True
		except IndexError:
			return False
		return False
	for t in parser.tags():
		if is_language_link(t):
			l = [
			(parser.next(), 'b'),
			(parser.next(), 'data(language)'),
			(parser.next(), '/b'),
			(parser.next(), 'a'),
			(parser.next(), 'data'),
			(parser.next(), 'small'),
			(parser.next(), 'data(n_project)'), ]
			language = l[1][0].data.strip()
			n = l[6][0].data
			try:
				n_project = get_n_project(n)
			except IndexError:
				continue
			else:
				yield (n_project, language)

for (name, url, get_statistics) in (
		('sourceforge.net', SOURCEFORGE_URL,
			sourceforge_get_language_statistics),
		('freshmeat.net', FRESHMEAT_URL,
			freshmeat_get_language_statistics),):
	b = mechanize.Browser()
	b.set_handle_robots(False)
	b.open(url)
	r = b.response()
	r.seek(0)
	p = pullparser.PullParser(r)
	l = list(get_statistics(p))
	l.sort()
	l.reverse()
	print name
	for (n_project, language) in l:
		print '%6d %s' % (n_project, language)
	print

The mechanize module is available at http://wwwsearch.sf.net/mechanize/

1 comment

Gene tani 18 years, 3 months ago  # | flag

useful example. - Thanks for this, good example of raw tag-pulling using mechanize. I wonder why you chose mechanize rather than, say, Beautiful soup, when even pullparser's author has recommended the latter

  • a couple of tag contents "100 projects" "57 projects" aren't labelled as to where they're hard-coded from, but i'm pretty sure it's from the ADA project

  • hard tabs?!