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#!/usr/bin/env python

import cPickle
import os
import re
import sys
import urllib

BQ_DIR = '/Users/dsorber/.bashquote'
BQ_CACHE = '/Users/dsorber/.bashquote/bq_cache'

def main():
# Create a list to hold the quotes
quotes = []

# Create the bashquote directory if it does not exist
if not os.path.exists(BQ_DIR):
print 'Creating bashquote directory...',
os.mkdir(BQ_DIR)
print 'Done'
# Create the cache file, or open it if it already exists
if not os.path.exists(BQ_CACHE):
print 'Creating bashquote cache...',
cache = open(BQ_CACHE, 'w')
cache.close()
print 'Done'
else:
cache = open(BQ_CACHE, 'r')
quotes = cPickle.load(cache)
cache.close()

# Only grab fresh quotes if there are less than 50 in the cache
if not len(quotes) < 50:
print 'plenty left'
sys.exit()

# Goto to the random >0 bash quotes page
listpage = urllib.urlopen("http://www.bash.org/?random1")
listpagetext = listpage.read()

quote_regex = '<p class="quote".+<b>#(\d+)</b>.+</a>\((\d+)\)<a .+<p class="qt">([\s\S]+?)</p>'

quotes = []
for quote_match in re.finditer(quote_regex, listpagetext):
quotes.append((quote_match.group(1),
quote_match.group(2),
unhtmlify(quote_match.group(3))))
# Store the list of quotes in the cache file, using the highest protocol
cache = open(BQ_CACHE, 'w')
cPickle.dump(quotes, cache, -1)
cache.close()
sys.exit()


def unhtmlify(quote):
# Filter out that HTML bullshit
return quote.replace("&lt;", "<").replace("\'&lt;", "<")\
.replace("&gt;", ">").replace("&quot;", "\"")\
.replace("&nbsp;", " ").replace("\\'", "'")\
.replace("\\x92", "'").replace("<br />\\r\\n', '", "\n")\
.replace("<br />\\r\\n\", '", "\n").replace("&amp;", "&")\
.replace("<br />\\r\\n', \"", "\n")\
.replace("<br />\\r\\n\", \"", "\n").replace("<br />", "")


if __name__=="__main__":
main()