h/plugins/snopes.py

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import re
from util import hook, http
search_url = "http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=00062d45-sp00000000"
@hook.command
def snopes(inp):
".snopes <topic> -- searches snopes for an urban legend about <topic>"
search_page = http.get_html(search_url, sp_q=inp, sp_c="1")
result_urls = search_page.xpath("//a[@target='_self']/@href")
if not result_urls:
return "no matching pages found"
snopes_page = http.get_html(result_urls[0])
snopes_text = snopes_page.text_content()
claim = re.search(r"Claim: .*", snopes_text).group(0).strip()
status = re.search(r"Status: .*", snopes_text)
if status is not None:
status = status.group(0).strip()
else: # new-style statuses
status = "Status: %s." % re.search(r"FALSE|TRUE|MIXTURE|UNDETERMINED",
snopes_text).group(0).title()
claim = re.sub(r"[\s\xa0]+", " ", claim) # compress whitespace
status = re.sub(r"[\s\xa0]+", " ", status)
return "%s %s %s" % (claim, status, result_urls[0])