From 9a408433b95d9b7bc173cc6e7120a14262b006b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Vidal <alex.vidal@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:19:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] working metacritic plugin

---
 plugins/metacritic.py | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 plugins/metacritic.py

diff --git a/plugins/metacritic.py b/plugins/metacritic.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c614926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/metacritic.py
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+#Metacritic.com scraper
+
+from util import hook, http
+
+from urllib2 import HTTPError
+
+
+@hook.command('mc')
+def metacritic(inp):
+    '.mc [all|movie|tv|album|x360|ps3|pc|ds|wii] <title> -- gets rating for'\
+    ' <title> from metacritic on the specified medium'
+
+    args = inp.strip()
+
+    game_platforms = ('x360', 'ps3', 'pc', 'ds', 'wii', '3ds', 'gba')
+    all_platforms = game_platforms + ('all','movie','tv','album')
+
+    try:
+        plat, title = args.split(' ', 1)
+        if plat not in all_platforms:
+            raise ValueError
+    except ValueError:
+        plat = 'all'
+        title = args
+
+    cat = 'game' if plat in game_platforms else plat
+
+    title_safe = http.quote_plus(title)
+
+    url = 'http://www.metacritic.com/search/%s/%s/results' % (cat, title_safe)
+    print url
+
+    try:
+        doc = http.get_html(url)
+    except HTTPError, e:
+        return 'fetch returned error %d' % e.code
+
+    ''' result format:
+    -- game result, with score
+    -- subsequent results are the same structure, without first_result class
+    <li class="result first_result">
+        <div class="result_type">
+            <strong>Game</strong>
+            <span class="platform">WII</span>
+        </div>
+        <div class="result_wrap">
+            <div class="basic_stats has_score">
+                <div class="main_stats">
+                    <h3 class="product_title basic_stat">...</h3>
+                    <div class="std_score">
+                        <div class="score_wrap">
+                            <span class="label">Metascore: </span>
+                            <span class="data metascore score_favorable">87</span>
+                        </div>
+                    </div>
+                </div>
+                <div class="more_stats extended_stats">...</div>
+            </div>
+        </div>
+    </li>
+
+    -- other platforms are the same basic layout
+    -- if it doesn't have a score, there is no div.basic_score
+    -- the <div class="result_type"> changes content for non-games:
+    <div class="result_type"><strong>Movie</strong></div>
+    '''
+
+    # get the proper result element we want to pull data from
+
+    result = None
+
+    if not doc.find_class('query_results'):
+        return 'no results found'
+
+    if plat not in game_platforms:
+        # for [all] results, or non-game platforms, get the first result
+        result = doc.find_class('result first_result')[0]
+
+        # find the platform, if it exists
+        result_type = result.find_class('result_type')
+        if result_type:
+
+            # if the result_type div has a platform div, get that one
+            platform_div = result_type[0].find_class('platform')
+            if platform_div:
+                plat = platform_div[0].text_content()
+
+    else:
+        # for games, we want to pull the first result with the correct
+        # platform
+        results = doc.find_class('result')
+        for res in results:
+            result_plat = res.find_class('platform')[0].text_content()
+            if result_plat == plat.upper():
+                result = res
+                break
+
+    if not result:
+        return 'could not fetch results'
+
+    # get the name, release date, and score from the result
+    name = result.find_class('product_title')[0].text_content()
+
+    release = result.find_class('release_date')[0].\
+        find_class('data')[0].text_content()
+
+    try:
+        score = result.find_class('metascore')[0].text_content()
+    except IndexError:
+        score = None
+
+
+    result = '[%s] %s - %s, released: %s' % (plat.upper(), name,
+        score or 'no score', release)
+
+    return result